Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] New DSO catalog

2011-07-11 Thread Alexander Wolf
2011/7/11 Thomas Morris : Hi Thomas, > commerical use and is therefore more strict than the GPL). How about > an extension containing the Messier/Caldwell/Herschel objects > hopefully with GPL license like the rest of Stellarium? We could ship If we use the same identifiers for the same objects,

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] New DSO catalog

2011-07-11 Thread Thomas Morris
Hi Alex, It's a good idea, although we may not want to restrict the unified catalogue to the same license as the NGC/IC catalogue (which prohibits commerical use and is therefore more strict than the GPL). How about an extension containing the Messier/Caldwell/Herschel objects hopefully with GPL l

[Stellarium-pubdevel] New DSO catalog

2011-07-11 Thread Alexander Wolf
Greetings all! I was thinking about the catalog of deep-sky objects - maybe we should make a union catalog for Stellarium, consisting of NGC/IC/Messier/Caldwell/Hershel? -- With best regards, Alexander -- All of the dat