Astronomical Image Processing System: Difference between revisions

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During this time, another significant change came about. All this exposure to copylefted code was taking its toll. As mentioned earlier, AIPS was originally released under a restrictive user agreement that prohibited redistribution and was unpalatable or even unacceptable to some in our own astronomical community. Not only that, but the administrative costs associated with it were a burden.

Thus, around 2000 the decissiondecision was made to shift AIPS over to the GNU (Free Software Foundation's) General Public License on its next periodic release.

As of the writing of this article, the most recent version of AIPS is the 2008 release, called 31DEC08, approaching the end of it's third decade of use in the astronomical community.