Re: Bug#619396: ITP: geant321 -- Particle detector description and simulation tool

[Kevin B. McCarty]

Hi,

(sorry to break the thread, I'm not subscribed to debian-devel)

Original CERNLIB maintainer here, the debian/copyright files for the
original CERNLIB packages (for now, still available in oldstable) may
be useful to answer some of Mika's and others' questions regarding
licensing issues.

http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/c/cernlib/cernlib_2006.dfsg.2-13.2/cernlib.copyright
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/p/paw/paw_2.14.04.dfsg.2-6/paw.copyright
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/geant321/geant321_3.21.14.dfsg-8/geant321.copyright
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/m/mclibs/mclibs_2006.dfsg.2-5/montecarlo-base.copyright

best regards,

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Re: Bug#619396: ITP: geant321 -- Particle detector description and simulation tool

[Mika Pflüger]

Hi,

Am Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:01:28 +0800
schrieb Lifeng Sun lifong...@gmail.com:
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Lifeng Sun lifong...@gmail.com
 
 * Package name: geant321
   Version : 3.21.14
   Upstream Author : CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics
 * URL : http://wwwasd.web.cern.ch/wwwasd/geant/index.html
 * License : GPL-2+
   Programming Lang: Fortran, C
   Description : Particle detector description and simulation tool
 
 GEANT is a framework for simulating the passage of subatomic particles
 through matter, for instance, particle detectors.  For maximum
 flexibility, GEANT simulations are performed by linking FORTRAN code
 supplied by the user with the GEANT library, then running the
 resulting executable.
 
Additionally to my concerns towards cernlib in general (see answer to
#619393), I think that GEANT is not free software. At
http://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/conditions.html
it says:
(C) Copyright CERN except where explicitly stated otherwise. Permission
to use and/or redistribute this work is granted under the terms of the
GNU General Public License. FLUKA routines included in GEANT3 are joint
copyright of INFN and CERN and are not licensed under the GPL:
permission to use and/or redistribute outside GEANT3 should be
negotiated. The software and documentation made available under the
terms of this license are provided with no warranty. 

If necessary libraries for the use of GEANT are not licensed under the
GPL and are explicitly forbidden to redistribute and use outside of
GEANT (should be negotiated sounds like is not allowed in my ears)
this can only maybe pass into non-free, but I am not even sure
redistribution is allowed, the only license-related thing I could find
about fluka is in 2005/src/geant321/examples/gexam4/guphad.F:
(C) Copyright of the authors
[...]
*   - All the rights concerning FLUKA or parts of it are only of the   *
* authors and are independent from those of the GEANT code *

with no further permissions. Seems as if this is not redistributable.

Cheers,

Mika

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