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
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