use stellarium images in a publication

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.

No problem at all for the star positions and constellation lines. If your screenshots include nebula images that might be less clear as some of them are licensed as public domain (which doesn't exist in some countries, like Germany), and some are licensed as "Free for non-commercial use". Some of the images require attribution, as do the screenshots in general.

See the README file for full details.

As far as attribution is concerned, a link to http://stellarium.org/ on the copyrights page of your book would be very welcome, although just naming the project is probably enough.

Others have already done this. I saw a Philips Pocket Sky Guide in a local shop which had screenshots from Stellarium, so their publishers were obviously OK with it :-)

I would only be using screen shots of the star positions, so I gather from your
answer that is allowed?

Reading readme's is like PTSD from reading double negative income tax codes. If
I asked 3 other people I might get 3 different answers!

Thanks

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Subject: Re: [Question #144031]: use stellarium images in a publication

Your question #144031 on Stellarium changed:
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Matthew Gates proposed the following answer:
Disclaimer:  I am not a lawyer.

No problem at all for the star positions and constellation lines.  If
your screenshots include nebula images that might be less clear as some
of them are licensed as public domain (which doesn't exist in some
countries, like Germany), and some are licensed as "Free for non-
commercial use".  Some of the images require attribution, as do the
screenshots in general.

See the README file for full details.

As far as attribution is concerned, a link to http://stellarium.org/ on
the copyrights page of your book would be very welcome, although just
naming the project is probably enough.

Others have already done this.  I saw a Philips Pocket Sky Guide in a
local shop which had screenshots from Stellarium, so their publishers
were obviously OK with it  :-)

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