[Kstars-devel] About packaging kstars downloadable data

[Noel David Torres Taño]

Hello:

I'm Noel Torres, kstars long time user, and I want to make packages to ease 
install of the data that kstars actually downloads from the net.

Actually, kstars users can download pieces like the Tycho 2 catalog from the 
web in an automated way, but each user in a shared computer gets its own copy 
of the file, thus wasting bandwisth and disk space.

I'm in the task of packaging those data for Debian, to allow a centrallized, 
one time only install (and one time only update in each actualization you make 
on the datafiles). I've started with precisely the Tycho 2 catalog datafile, but 
I want to continue with all the 9 pieces of downloadable data.

The point is that I've bee pointed a possible problem with the license: in 
http://edu.kde.org/kstars/downloads/knewstuff.xml it is stated that the datafile 
is GPL, but as far as I know the Tycho 2 catalog itself is not free.

Do you have a statement (from Mr. Erik Høg or from ESA allowing to use the 
catalog) that I can include in my package?

Many thanks

Noel Torres
er Envite

MORE INFO:
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=90166
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=597202
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