This package was debianized by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pea <jfs@computer.org>
Tue, 13 Mar 2001 01:28:57 +0100.

It was downloaded from http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/starplot.html

Upstream Author(s): NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Copyright:
The data set was obtained from the archives of the Astronomical Data
Center (ADC) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.  These archives are available
to the public at http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov.

COPYRIGHT NOTE


It is safe to redistribute the files in the orig-data directory,
which, as noted above, are freely available on the Astronomical Data Center
web site.  However, since these are copyrighted data, you may NOT redistribute
modified versions of them.  This is why I have the StarPlot-format data files,
*.stars, generated at install time instead of being available for download.
I would advise that you NOT redistribute these *.stars data files.  See
below for a detailed explanation.

The Makefile and .spec file of this data set are licensed under the GNU GPL,
of which you should have received a copy with the StarPlot documentation.
The GPL also applies to the text documentation (README, INSTALL) for this data
set, except where it would conflict with the licensing requirements described
below.  The GPL does ***NOT*** apply to the star data files enclosed or
generated.  The data files in the orig-data directory originate from the 
Astronomical Data Center (http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov) at NASA Goddard Space 
Flight Center, and are copyrighted by their respective authors.  Upon asking 
the ADC about the permissibility of their redistribution, I was told the
following:

        Yes, you are free to distribute the files with your program.
        Although, we do ask that you acknowledge, your source (the ADC)
        and the original authors.

        See: http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/adc/acknowledge_adc.html
        for more information.

My conclusions are that (1) you are free to redistribute the ADC data files.
However, (2) you must not delete any documentation giving credit for the data
files, for example in the README; and (3) the data files must NOT be altered in
any way (without permission of the original authors).  Therefore (4) it is NOT
permissible to redistribute the *.stars files which the StarPlot conversion
program creates from the ADC data files.  I have confirmed these conclusions
with the ADC.



