Re: JPL Planetary Ephemeris DE405
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- Subject: Re: JPL Planetary Ephemeris DE405
- From: jonathon <jonathon.blake@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 08:12:32 +0000
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On 02/28/2018 12:17 PM, Ole Streicher wrote:
> Again, as shown here: this license covers *software*, not *data*.
As far as copyright law is concerned, there is no difference between
data and software.
For some programming languages, there is no difference between data and
code.
> Data is fundamentally different from software: for example, there is no "source code" for DE405.
The source code for the ephemeris is physical observations of the stars,
planets, and other bodies in it.
jonathon
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