[Kstars-devel] Data from KStars in other GPL program

[Akarsh Simha]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 07:02:17PM +0100, Jan Kotek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am writting Asterope (aka OpenCoeli) program. It is GPLv3, based on
> Java, planetarium which uses Virtual Observatory etc... More at:
> http://code.google.com/p/asterope/
> 
> I wander if I can use data from KStars in my program. More precisely
> Cities.dat and object pictures. What is exact license of those data?

Hi Jan

I'm not sure about Cities.dat, but it's terribly inaccurate. You might
want to see if there's a way to get things out of Marble. However, I
think you can use it. 

You _might_ be able to dig out details of the licensing of Cities.dat
from this mailing list's archives, because I remotely remember Jason
mentioning that they were put together by hand, so it was GPL. Not
sure, though.

Some images are under non-commercial use licenses. You can read about
them in the README.images file in the kdeedu/kstars directory.

Regards
Akarsh