[Fedora-legal-list] GNU Space chart and CDS catalogues

[Marek Mahut]

Hello legal team,

I would like to package GNU spacechart application [1], but I'm not sure 
if we can ship their data files. Gnu Space Chart is a 3D star-mapping 
program that uses data (not directly the catalogue [2], only set of data 
from there) with this copyright notice:



    ##################################################################
        Catalogues available at CDS contain scientific data distributed
    for free, for a scientific usage. Only the expenses related to
    copying and mailing are charged if relevant.
        Companies including such data in their commercial products cannot
    charge their clients for the data. Furthermore, users must be informed
    of the origin of the data: this means an explicit reference to the 
  service
    provided by the CDS and also to the original author(s) of each 
catalogue.
    ##################################################################



Now, I'm not sure if we can ship it with Fedora, because even if someone 
sell Fedora for money, they sell the program and not data directly. 
However I don't know how the law looks on this problem.

Any ideas? Workarounds?

  [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/spacechart/#download
  [2] http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/

Thanks,

-- 
Marek Mahut               https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Astronomy/
Fedora Project                                   http://www.jamendo.com/

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