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Re: SEPL (Swiss Ephemeris Public License)



Joshua Tacoma said on Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 02:58:34AM -0400,:

 > I am looking at packaging the Swiss Ephemeris:

You are not the only one. Jaldhar H. Vyas tried before. 
 
 > : You  must ensure that all recipients  of machine-executable forms
 > of  these items  are  also able  to  receive and  use the  complete
 > machine-readable source code to the items without any charge beyond
 > the costs of data transfer.

This issue was discussed earlier. And the consensus seems to be (at
least my opinion was) that this license is not DFSG free.

 > So: is this 'main' material or not?

IMHO, no. 

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