COPYING

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PyEphem Copyright
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The "libastro" C library, which is contained within a subdirectory of
this package, is Copyright (C) 2009 by:

 * Dr. Craig A. Counterman, whose code is used in "precess.c".
 * Robert Berger (N3EMO), whose code is used in "earthsat.c".
 * Elwood Charles Downey, who, with the permission of those earlier
   authors, wrote the rest of "libastro" thereby creating a derived
   work which he distributes with his "XEphem" application.
 * Brandon Craig Rhodes, who lightly modified some sections of the code
   to make them behave when run under Python within PyEphem.

The "PyEphem" Python module, which includes everything else in this
package, is Copyright (C) 2009 by Brandon Craig Rhodes.

All of the above authors agree that you can redistribute and/or modify
this combined work under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License (LGPL) version 3, as published by the Free Software Foundation,
and which is in included verbatim in the files "LICENSE-GPL" and
"LICENSE-LGPL" in this distribution.