Re: JPL Planetary Ephemeris DE405
An expression of which observations may
be subject ot copyright, but the observations themselves,
(i.e., data) are not.
It seems an expression of data or source code
may be subject to protection, but the information
and algorithm are not sunject to copyright.
The latter may have implications the patent area.
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extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation,
concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is
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103. Subject matter of copyright:
Compilations and derivative works
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----- Original Message -----
From: "jonathon" <jonathon.blake@gmail.com>
To: <debian-legal@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2018 3:12 AM
Subject: Re: JPL Planetary Ephemeris DE405
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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