Free full version of Stellarium

[jjjnettie]

It's on the cover disk of the November issue of PC World.:thumbsup:

[mill]

Thanks for the tip Jeanette :)

[wasyoungonce]

Well you could buy the same said software from ebay.

The fact it is free doesn't stop people form re-selling it. I believe it is open source and they can legitimately do this.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Astronomy-Astronomical-Telescope-Software-for-windows_W0QQitemZ300163474638QQihZ0 20QQcategoryZ3783QQssPageNameZWDVWQ QrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Here is a screen grab for the above "ebay astronomy software"
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p286/grinchebay/Astronomy/08-l.jpg

Look familiar?

Scoundrels!:mad2:

[Omaroo]

Being "open source", or complying with the GPL license, it cannot be sold. It can be given away with the source code such that it the person you gave it to were to use that source code and create changes and/or additions, they would be obliged to give those changes back to the community as open source code in itself.

These people are selling the "media only" - i.e. the disk it comes on. They don't have the right to sell the software - it's a very loose interpretation of the rules. Linux is another prime example - sold for US$5.00 because that's the cost of the DVD media. At least you GET the source code with most of these distributions - unlike Stellarium.

Anyhow - Stellarium is, in my opinion, very slow, unstable, clunky and does not cover the southern delights so well. Other than that it's barely OK...... but other than that I guess it's free! :)