Format-Specification: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn?op=file&rev=135
Name: Tycho2 catalogue for KStars
Maintainer: Noel David Torres Taño <envite@rolamasao.org>
Source: http://edu.kde.org/kstars/downloads/tycho2_mag_12.5-1.1.tar.bz2

Files: deepstars.dat
Copyright: 2008 Akarsh Simha <kstars-devel@kde.org>, Jason Harris <kstars-devel@kde.org>
X-Original-Data-Copyright: 2000 E. Høg, C. Fabricius, V.V. Makarov, S. Urban, T. Corbin, G. Wycoff, U. Bastian, P. Schwekendiek, and A. Wicenec
                           1997 ESA (Hipparcos mission)
X-Reference: Astron. Astrophys. 355.2, P L19-L22 (2000) :
             The Tycho-2 Catalogue of the 2.5 Million Brightest Stars.
X-Original-Data-License: Public Domain
 (as data has been retrieved by Authors from NASA ADC at http://web.archive.org/web/20060908122029/adc.astro.umd.edu/cgi-bin/adc/cat.pl?/catalogs/1/1259/ whose policy is PD, as stated in http://web.archive.org/web/20070303235508/http://adc.astro.umd.edu/adc/questions_feedback.html#policies, see below)
 All ADC data are public domain unless otherwise stated in the "ReadMe" file. The data are for scientific use only and have no commercial value.
License: GPL
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it
 and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
 License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 1.
 .
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
 useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
 warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
 PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more
 details.
 .
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
 License along with this package; if not, write to the Free
 Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor,
 Boston, MA  02110-1301 USA
 .
 On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public
 License version 1 can be found in the file
 `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-1'.

Comment: How to edit binary kstars dat files? Answer by Akarsh Simha
 The file kstars/data/README.binfileformat explains the binary file
 format used in the .dat file in some detail.
 .
 The tools in the kstars/data/tools/ directory can be used to generate
 the data files from SQL databases containing the star data. The 
 purpose and usage of the tools are explained in the README.tools in
 the same directory.
 .
 The source for the .dat files is from ASCII data files supplied by
 USNO (for the NOMAD catalog) and (for example) NASA (for the Tycho
 catalog). The ASCII files are rather large to be part of the release,
 but I think I will some day (most likely during this summer) write a
 script that converts the binary data file back into an SQL database.
 .
 The SQL database details are still undocumented, but the source code
 in perl contains a "CREATE TABLE" instruction that explains what
 fields the scripts expect in the database.

Files: debian
Copyright: 2010 Noel David Torres Taño <envite@rolamasao.org>
License: GPL-2
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it
 and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2.
 .
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
 useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
 warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
 PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more
 details.
 .
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
 License along with this package; if not, write to the Free
 Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor,
 Boston, MA  02110-1301 USA
 .
 On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public
 License version 2 can be found in the file
 `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.
