[Kstars-devel] Inaccurate Catalogs?

[Jason Harris]

The SAC contains mostly NGC objects; IC objects are included only 
incidentally.  Because of this I am going to ask people at ngcic.org 
directly.

Jason

On Friday 07 December 2007 07:15:49 am Jason Harris wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thursday 06 December 2007 11:39:15 pm Akarsh Simha wrote:
> > What about this one? I've seen many commercial and free software use
> > this. (eg: SkyMap Pro, and Cartes du Ciel)
> > I however couldn't find any license agreement whatsoever...
> > http://www.saguaroastro.org/content/downloads.htm
>
> On this page, they credit ngcic.org and Wolfgang Steinicke as sources. 
> Both have stated to me in the past that their data are to be used for
> non-commercial purposes only, which is not compatible with the GPL.  I have
> no idea how SkyMap Pro is using the catalog, given this fact.
>
> In any case, I will still email them...
>
> Jason
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