Bug#597202: ITP: kstars-data-extra-tycho2 -- Contains the Tycho2 star catalog for centralized install, avoiding per-user install

2010-11-02 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
Hello all: Finally I've found the needed info. Mr. Akarsh Simha from KStars have said me: Hi Noel, and others, I got an almost immediate reply from Jason regarding this stuff. While the site that I linked to is down, the WayBack Machine shows that we were indeed compliant with the policy

Bug#597202: ITP: kstars-data-extra-tycho2 -- Contains the Tycho2 star catalog for centralized install, avoiding per-user install

2010-09-20 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 05:24:38PM +0100, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: * License : GPL This license is *not* the license the Tycho2 catalog was distributed with 10 years ago (8th february 2000). It might be worth clarifying with Erik Høg, original author of the catalog

Bug#597202: ITP: kstars-data-extra-tycho2 -- Contains the Tycho2 star catalog for centralized install, avoiding per-user install

2010-09-20 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
On Lunes 20 Septiembre 2010 21:58:41 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña escribió: [...] Please confirm with them that this *derived* data from the Tycho-2 can be indeed GPL-licensed. I would be very surprised if this is the case (I've had contact with some producers of star data catalogues in the

Bug#597202: ITP: kstars-data-extra-tycho2 -- Contains the Tycho2 star catalog for centralized install, avoiding per-user install

2010-09-19 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
Hi, First of all, please first note there is an informal policy for Stars data catalogues which is available in the 'stardata-common' package (more info at http://alioth.debian.org/projects/stardata-common/). We already provide some star data catalogues (Gliese and Yale which are both non-free)

Bug#597202: ITP: kstars-data-extra-tycho2 -- Contains the Tycho2 star catalog for centralized install, avoiding per-user install

2010-09-19 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
On Domingo 19 Septiembre 2010 13:03:04 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña escribió: Hi, First of all, please first note there is an informal policy for Stars data catalogues which is available in the 'stardata-common' package (more info at http://alioth.debian.org/projects/stardata-common/). We

Bug#597202: ITP: kstars-data-extra-tycho2 -- Contains the Tycho2 star catalog for centralized install, avoiding per-user install

2010-09-17 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Noel David Torres Taño env...@rolamasao.org Actually kstars offer each user to download some data, from the net, which causes bandwith and disk waste (See #596007). I will package one of those datafiles (one of the catalogs) to avoid that, and I want to