[Kstars-devel] [PATCH] Show Magellanic Clouds

[Jason Harris]

If you constructed the contours yourself from images, then I think the  
license is up to you.  I don't think the copyright of the image  
extends to a hand-constructed outline of a shape in that image, but  
IANAL.

Jason

On Aug 18, 2008, at 3:32 PM, Jérôme SONRIER wrote:

> Le lundi 18 août 2008, Jason Harris a écrit :
>> Hi Jerome,
>>
>> The patch works great!  Thanks again, I'm going to apply it now.  Can
>> I ask where you got the contour data, and how it is licensed?  We
>> need to make sure that we have the right to distribute them.
>
> For SMC, the image I used can be found on this page :
> http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2007/brightburst/
>
> I think we can use it : http://www.nrao.edu/imagegallery/image_use.shtml
>
> You can find the gimp file that I made that show the contour here :
> http://emor3j.fr.eu.org/dvlpt/kde/kstars/magellanicclouds/contours/smc.xcf
>
>
>
> For LMC, I used 3 images :
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Dorado_constellation_map.png
> http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/public/AList/Dorado.html
> http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full/2005/08/aa1074/img62.gif
>
> I don't know how they are licensed.
>
> You can find the gimp file that I made that show the contour here :
> http://emor3j.fr.eu.org/dvlpt/kde/kstars/magellanicclouds/contours/lmc.xcf
>
>
>>
>> Eventually, it might be nice to create a subclass of DeepSkyObject
>> that defines such a contour for the object.  With the current
>> implementation, we can see the LMC and SMC, but the LMC is not
>> clickable (so no Details window, no context menu, no image links,
>> etc.).  If we do this, we probably wouldn't make the entire contour
>> area clickable, but just add a small symbol at its centroid for
>> clicks.  Other objects off the top of my head that could use a
>> contour: Veil nebula, North American nebula, Barnard's Loop, Orion
>> Nebula, etc.
>>
> 	
> Yes, I agree, it would be easier to show what we want with a subclass
> like this.
>
>
> -- 
> Jérôme SONRIER
>
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