Kahle v. AshcroftGravitation LTD.
originally submitted by Pipian:
There is an old piece of astronomy/university software for the Macintosh called "Gravitation LTD" wherein you make planetary objects and can experiment with mass, velocity, and such.
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Pipian:
There is an old piece of astronomy/university software for the Macintosh called "Gravitation LTD" wherein you make planetary objects and can experiment with mass, velocity, and such. The game came out in the beginning of 1993. Unfortunately, the software was never updated again, and thus I wanted to make an update of the game and port it to Windows, OS X, or Linux/Unix. But to do this, I need the source code. However, because the owner can no longer be contacted (The email is long since disconnected, and there are no traces of his whereabouts as far as I can tell) I can not do this. The software is very facinating, and somewhat educational as well and I would love for it to be available to others, but I can not do anything legally like disassembling the code, or anything of the sort. I believe that if I had the abillity to do so legally, (Provided I tried everything to contact the maker), Many, Many more people would enjoy this software, and learn about astronomy.