[Kstars-devel] [PATCH] Support of non-western constellations

[Jérôme SONRIER]

Le vendredi 14 novembre 2008, Médéric Boquien a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> Le Thursday 13 November 2008 08:50:54 Akarsh Simha, vous avez écrit :
> > Where was this data obtained? Can we contact someone and find this
> > out? I think it is important that we find this out before this is
> > commited to trunk.
>
> AFAIK the data was taken from Stellarium. Stellarium is under the GPL
> but there is no specified license for the constellation files. It
> should be safe to assume they are under the GPL too but it does not
> hurt to ask the Stellarium people.

I just send a mail to Fabien Chéreau (Project coordinator of Stellarium) 
to ask him if we can use those data.

I also found all authors of Stellarium data files :

Chinese sky culture was contributed by Karrie Berglund of Digitalis 
Education Solutions, Inc. based on Hong Kong Space Museum star maps 
(http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/Space/StarShine/HKSkyMap/e_starshine_hkskymap.htm).

Egyptian sky culture was contributed by Karrie Berglund of Digitalis 
Education Solutions, Inc. based on the paper "A Map of the Ancient 
Egyptian Firmament” by Juan Antonio Belmonte.

Inuit sky culture was contributed by Karrie Berglund of Digitalis 
Education Solutions, Inc. based primarily on the book "The Arctic Sky: 
Inuit Astronomy, Star Lore and Legend" by John MacDonald.

Korean sky culture was contributed by Stellarium user : Jeong, Tae-Min 
(http://user.chollian.net/~jtm71/)

Lakota sky culture was contributed by Karrie Berglund of Digitalis 
Education Solutions, Inc. based primarily on the book "Lakota Star 
Knowledge: Studies in Lakota Stellar Theology" by Ronald Goodman.

Maori sky culture was contributed by Stellarium user : Dan Smale 
<d.smale(at)niwa.co.nz>

Navajo sky culture was contributed by Karrie Berglund of Digitalis 
Education Solutions, Inc. based primarily on the book "Star 
Trails-Navajo" by Don Childrey.

Norse sky culture was contributed by Stellarium user : Jonas Persson, 
<jonas.persson(at)mna.hkr.se>

Polynesian sky culture was contributed by Karrie Berglund of Digitalis 
Education Solutions, Inc. based primarily on "Polynesian Voyaging 
Society information" 
(http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/hawaiian/voyaging/pvs/navigate/stars.html)

Tupi sky culture was contributed by Stellarium user : Paulo Marcelo 
Pontes.



Maybe must we mention them somewhere.



Regards

-- 
Jérôme SONRIER