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liberfa-2.0.1

Essential Routines for Fundamental Astronomy

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Description

ERFA (Essential Routines for Fundamental Astronomy) is a C library containing key algorithms for astronomy, and is based on the SOFA library published by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), https://www.iausofa.org/ ERFA is intended to replicate the functionality of SOFA (aside from possible bugfixes in ERFA that have not yet been included in SOFA), but is licensed under a three-clause BSD license to enable its compatibility with a wide range of open source licenses. Permission for this release has been obtained from the SOFA board, and is available in the LICENSE file included in this source distribution.

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Ports path
astro/liberfa
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
astro
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