[Fedora-legal-list] Re: What license for sgp4

[Richard Fontana]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 12:33 PM Mattia Verga <mattia.verga(a)proton.me&gt;
wrote:
>  SGP4 is a small C++ library which is bundled in python-sgp4 currently 
under review
[1].
>  The source code is available from
https://celestrak.org/publications/AIAA/2006-6753/ and in the FAQ it says:
>  """
>  Are there any Licenses required to use the SGP4 code?
>  There is no license associated with the code and you may use it for any
purpose—personal or commercial—as you wish. We ask only that you include
citations in your documentation and source code to show the source of the
code and provide links to the main page, to facilitate communications
regarding any questions on the theory or source code.
>  """
>
>  Is there a license that fits? It seems some sort of Public Domain with
attribution...

Please open an issue for this license text at
gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data. We might consider this
appropriate for the current "UltraPermissive" umbrella category, but I'm
not sure.

Richard