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Re: [Orekit Developers] Distribution of orekit-python "egg"

Hi Petrus,

Petrus Hyvönen <petrus.hyvonen@gmail.com> a écrit :


Hi,

This is mostly a legal/policy question,

Would the license of orekit allow and would it be preferred that I create
some python "eggs" (python installer packages) for orekit?

The license allow it and it would be interesting to do.



I am using JCC to
wrap orekit java library so it is accessible from standard python. All
instructions needed are on the orekit wiki.

After an update to python 2.7 and rebuilding of the wrapping, I realized
that there is some caveats involved on at least windows operating system
(such that you need microsoft visual C installed) to create the wrapping,
but not to run it.  When built I can easily make the eggs that could be put
on the orekit or other webpage and easily installed, without the need of
that compiler etc.

If you want it and if you choose to have all additional wrapping code  
and packaging distributed under the sames terms as Orekit, i.e. the  
Apache 2 Software License, then yes, we could host them here in the  
main Orekit site. You would of course be credited for that. Before we  
can really distribute your work, we would ask you to sign a Individual  
Contributor License Agreement which basically say you authorize us to  
distribute what you did. We follow exactly the same process as the  
Apache Software Foundation for that. I can send you the template of  
the paper.

Thanks
Luc


Let me know what you think
/Petrus




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