Package: cernlib Severity: serious Justification: non-free code -------- Original Message -------- Subject: FLUKA/Cernlib licensing questions Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:38:30 +0100 (CET) From: Alfredo Ferrari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Alfredo Ferrari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dear Kevin you asked about the licensing status of the FLUKA parts inside CERNLIB in october 2002. After our exchange of messages, I understood that those parts were not supposed to be kept into the CERNLIB version released for Debian etc due to license incompatibilities. Somebody has pointed out that, due to a misunderstanding, still significant portions are included in the distributed files, in particular the routines fdevap fdnopt fdpree flkdt1 flkdt2 flkdt3 flkdt4 flkdt5 flkdt6 flkdt7 bimsel cosleg fekfnc fpfrnc fradnc frhinc frhonc nclvin nclvst nucnuc nwisel peanut pfnclv phdset phdwll pioabs prepre rstsel sbcomp sigfer umofin xinneu xinpro and the include files aadat.inc auxpar.inc balanc.inc bamjcm.inc cmsres.inc comcon.inc corinc.inc corinc.inc dblprc.inc decayc.inc decayc2.inc depnuc.inc dimpar.inc eva0.inc eva1.inc fheavy.inc finlsp.inc finlsp2.inc finlsp3.inc finpar.inc finpar2.inc finuc.inc finuc2.inc finuct.inc hadflg.inc hadpar.inc higfis.inc inpdat.inc inpdat2.inc inpflg.inc iounit.inc isotop.inc labcos.inc mapa.inc metlsp.inc nucdat.inc nucgeo.inc nuclev.inc nucpar.inc paprop.inc parevt.inc parnuc.inc part.inc part2.inc part3.inc reac.inc redver.inc resnuc.inc split.inc xsepar.inc (I could have missed some of the routines/include files) and that this has been propagated to other packages (like the cernlib one in Fedora extras) born out of the Debian-distributed Cernlib. The likely reason for this qui-pro-quo is that those routines were in the "peanut" directory and not in the "fluka" one. However Peanut is the name of the Fluka intermediate energy generator and it is part of Fluka. It was kept in a separate directory only for practical reasons. Would it be possible to fix this (I suppose you don't want to keep them in) and clarify that those files were not GPL'ed, but rather subject to the Fluka license (that INFN and CERN eventually painfully agreed within the framework of a Collaboration Agreement signed in december 2003)? The impact on users will be zero, since without the "fluka" directory files peanut could not run. I appreciated the clear explaination you put inside the doc files. best regards Alfredo Ferrari -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Alfredo Ferrari || Tel.: +41.22.767.6119 | | CERN-AB || Fax.: +41.22.767.7555 | | 1211 Geneva 23 || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Switzerland || [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]