Andrea wrote:
Hi all,
I just wanted to report that I found a very nice astronomy program
called "XEphem", which would make a worthy addition to SL's
repositories, provided its licence isn't a show-stopper.
Although not GPL'd, it used to be in TUV's repos around version 5
pre-EL. It's open source and free for personal and educational use.
Anyway, I was able to build it from source without a hitch (you'll
probably need package openmotif-devel installed).
XEphem site with lots of screenshots:
<http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/>
Regards,
Andrea
Hi,
Well, I have to say it looks nice, but I don't think we can put it in the
distribution. It clearly is a non-commercial license.
"Permission to build and run XEphem from this source code is granted only for
personal use or for bona fide educational situations or research funded by
public funds. Permission is expressly prohibited in commercial or military
situations without prior agreement."
We could build and run this at CERN or Fermilab, or many of the labs. But we
don't control who downloads and runs Scientific Linux, so we couldn't put it in
the main Scientific Linux distribution.
Sorry
Troy
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