[fedora-astronomy] proposed astro package

["Germán A. Racca"]

On 04/17/2012 09:25 AM, Roy Bonser wrote:
> With the release of iraf 2.16 I was wondering if it could be reconsidered for inclusion in fedora/epel. It looks like the licensing issues have been cleaned up.

These are very good news if IRAF could be packaged for Fedora! Awesome!

Germán.

>  From the v2.16 release notes file:
>
>    o  "Free" Licenses
>
> 	Previous releases of IRAF were seen as being "non-free" due to
> 	legacy license retrictions in the system.  In particular, the NCAR
> 	graphics code restricted re-distribution of IRAF by parties other
> 	than NOAO, and comments in the XYACC source directory were taken
> 	to mean that an original BSD source license was required.
>
> 	We are happy to report that both restrictions have been removed
> 	from the IRAF system:  The XYACC code was rewritten prior to the
> 	v2.15.1a release and is covered under the OpenSolaris CDDL license.
> 	Agreements between NOAO and UCAR were reached to allow the NCAR
> 	code in IRAF to (retroactively) be covered by the current UCAR
> 	license allowing redistribution.
>
> 	A new COPYRIGHTS file and the text of the licenses now in use can
> 	be found in the $iraf/local directory as well as the distrubution
> 	directory on the iraf.noao.edu server.
>
> Thanks for your time,
>    --Roy Bonser
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Germán A. Racca
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