Re: XEphem now released under MIT Open Source license
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On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 3:13 PM Brandon Craig Rhodes via <brandon= [email protected]> wrote: XEphem was your labor for many long years ¡ I have been so bold as to go ahead and create a new organization ¡°XEphem¡± on GitHub that can serve as the owner for the community¡¯s copy of the source code, and I have uploaded the 4.0.0 version.
I should clarify that, if upstream development is expected to continue, and further XEphem versions will be appearing on the ¡°¡± download page, then let¡¯s maintain the??repository as a mirror of those official ¡°tgz¡± files, as a convenience for folks who want to fork the source code on GitHub to experiment and contribute fixes.
Additional repositories under the main project can host various schemes for packaging and distributing XEphem for modern systems.
Only if 4.0.0 is the more-or-less final release to be expected from the official site would I imagine the GitHub repository beginning to diverge from the official ¡°tgz¡± as fixes and updates are supplied by the community.
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