On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:50:33 +0530 Shriramana Sharma wrote: > Hello. I'm not currently a member of the list, so please CC me. Done. > > As per the public announcement archived at > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/swisseph/message/1918 This announcement seems to require a Yahoo account in order to be read... > the current > version 1.74 of the Swiss Ephemeris astronomy library has been > released under a dual-licensing scheme, with the "GPL 2 or later" > being the DFSG-compatible open source license. This is really great news!! :-) > > Previously (until version 1.73) they used a non-DFSG compatible > license, the Swiss Ephemeris Public License (see > http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#head-1ee6c9e79e063c30e134ca02bff7af1bd5bbcef1 > ) as the "open-source" license. But after months of my humble effort > (mostly consisting of repeated mails to their mailing list but nothing > more than that), they have now switched to the GPL. Your efforts are really appreciated, indeed! Thanks for doing this!! > > This list has previously helped me regarding what licensing policy to > suggest to them etc, so I felt I should echo their announcement here > and say thanks for all those who helped me. Thanks to you for persuading upstream to adopt the GNU GPL! -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/index.html#nanodocs The nano-document series is here! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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