I have a doubt about the "free for non commercial use" license.
Let's say a software licensed under a Fedora good license uses data from a 
catalog (directly or indirectly - e.g. to create a custom catalog format) that 
is licensed "free for non commercial use".

A good example for astronomy programs would be the NGC catalog from
http://www.klima-luft.de/steinicke/ngcic/ngcic_e.htm

or, in my actual case,
https://github.com/dstndstn/astrometry.net/blob/master/catalogs/ngc2000-readme.txt

I'm now packaging "astrometry" for Fedora and I actually removed that catalog 
from sources.
What's the limit of the "free for non commercial use" statement? In this case 
can the catalog be maintained in sources? If the software is under a free 
license there's no "commercial use" involved, in my opinion.

Thanks

Mattia
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