[Kstars-devel] qfits license?

[Jasem Mutlaq]

Hello,

This is the qfits license, it's BSD-style license (I beleive). Sorry if I 
neglected to include it, I'll commit the license file to the CVS soon.

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On Tuesday 27 January 2004 8:10 pm, Jason Harris wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am interested in using qfits in my GPL'd astronomy application (KStars),
> but I can only do so if qfits has a GPL-compatible license.  How is qfits
> licensed?  I can find no mention of it anywhere in the code, documentation,
> or website.
>
> You should consider adding copyright and license information to the
> distribution, both for your protection as the author, and so that people
> know whether it is available for them to use.
>
> regards,
> Jason Harris