From Michael.R.Greason@nasa.gov Wed Apr  8 21:48:48 2009
Message-ID: <49DCFA32.30606@nasa.gov>
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:25:38 -0400
From: "Michael R. Greason" <Michael.R.Greason@nasa.gov>
To: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
CC: Nicholas Phillips <Nicholas.G.Phillips@nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: SkyVIewer license

Hi,

The skyviewer software itself was written under contract to NASA and is
explicitly uncopyrighted.  Thank you for pointing this out; we've gone
ahead and included the following License.txt in our software download
tarballs (right now, version 1.0.0; we will take care of the older
tarballs at a later time).

Copyright (Unpublished--all rights reserved under the copyright laws of
the United States), U.S. Government as represented by the Administrator
of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.  No copyright is
claimed in the United States under Title 17, U.S. Code.

Permission to freely use, copy, modify, and distribute this software
and its documentation without fee is hereby granted, provided that this
copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty appears in all copies.

DISCLAIMER:

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS' WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EITHER EXPRESSED, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
ANY WARRANTY THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL CONFORM TO SPECIFICATIONS, ANY
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, AND FREEDOM FROM INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY THAT THE
DOCUMENTATION WILL CONFORM TO THE SOFTWARE, OR ANY WARRANTY THAT THE
SOFTWARE WILL BE ERROR FREE.  IN NO EVENT SHALL NASA BE LIABLE FOR ANY
DAMAGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, ARISING OUT OF, RESULTING FROM, OR IN ANY WAY
CONNECTED WITH THIS SOFTWARE, WHETHER OR NOT BASED UPON WARRANTY,
CONTRACT, TORT , OR OTHERWISE, WHETHER OR NOT INJURY WAS SUSTAINED BY
PERSONS OR PROPERTY OR OTHERWISE, AND WHETHER OR NOT LOSS WAS SUSTAINED
FROM, OR AROSE OUT OF THE RESULTS OF, OR USE OF, THE SOFTWARE OR
SERVICES PROVIDED HEREUNDER.

Nicholas---would you like to add any comments?

Mike Greason

Lubomir Rintel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've used the form on your pages [1], but got no response, therefore I'm
> contacting you directly.
>
> We'd like to include Skyviewer in Fedora operating system as part of
> Fedora Astronomy [2] project, but we were unable to determine the
> licensing. Although it is referred to as distributed under conditions of
> GPL on numerous places (such ash freahmeat [3]), and is shipped linked
> with GPL-ed library (Windows port ships with healpix), none of the
> source files contain licensing information and no license text is
> included in the source distribution.
>
> Would you please add comments about the license to the source files and
> add accompany the source distribution with the license text, so we're
> able to determine whether we can use and distribute skyviewer?
>
> [1] http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/contact/contact.cfm
> [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Astronomy
> [3] http://freshmeat.net/projects/skyviewer/
>
> Thanks!
>