Bug#973872: Usage of MersenneTwister.h in CRAN bipartite (Was:r-cran-bipartite_2.15-1_amd64.changes REJECTED)

2020-11-20 Thread carsten . dormann
Dear Andreas, TL;DR: I think it's fine, and I will continue claiming it is compatible with GPL. Well, all I found, on the internet, is that this software is used all over the place, with various licenses, and I managed to track down "Richard Wagner": he died recently

Bug#973872: Usage of MersenneTwister.h in CRAN bipartite (Was:r-cran-bipartite_2.15-1_amd64.changes REJECTED)

2020-11-20 Thread Andreas Tille
Dear Carsten, any idea how to proceed from here? Kind regards Andreas. On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 07:20:47PM +0100, carsten.dorm...@biom.uni-freiburg.de wrote: > Dear Andreas, > > oops. > > To be honest, I had scanned the licence statement in that file, but not > noticed the notice. >

Bug#973872: Usage of MersenneTwister.h in CRAN bipartite (Was:r-cran-bipartite_2.15-1_amd64.changes REJECTED)

2020-11-07 Thread carsten . dormann
Dear Andreas, oops. To be honest, I had scanned the licence statement in that file, but not noticed the notice. The code in bipartite is based on code by Aaron Clauset, who himself used the Mersenne Twister to avoid the relatively short random number period. We (Rouven Strauss and I) did not

Bug#973872: Usage of MersenneTwister.h in CRAN bipartite (Was:r-cran-bipartite_2.15-1_amd64.changes REJECTED)

2020-11-07 Thread Andreas Tille
BTW, both said e-mail addresses are bouncing. May be some research for the copyright holders is needed. :-( On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 07:20:47PM +0100, carsten.dorm...@biom.uni-freiburg.de wrote: > Dear Andreas, > > oops. > > To be honest, I had scanned the licence statement in that file, but

Bug#973872: Usage of MersenneTwister.h in CRAN bipartite (Was:r-cran-bipartite_2.15-1_amd64.changes REJECTED)

2020-11-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Dear Carsten, thanks a lot for your quick response. On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 07:20:47PM +0100, carsten.dorm...@biom.uni-freiburg.de wrote: > To be honest, I had scanned the licence statement in that file, but not > noticed the notice. > > The code in bipartite is based on code by Aaron

Bug#973872: Usage of MersenneTwister.h in CRAN bipartite (Was:r-cran-bipartite_2.15-1_amd64.changes REJECTED)

2020-11-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I intend to package bipartite for Debian since some R package needs it to run its test suite. Our ftpmaster who is checking licensing issues stumbled upon the file src\MersenneTwister.h. It contains an additional clause to the license which says: // The original code included the following