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Re: Geant4 package



On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 7:12 PM, roucaries bastien
>>> Though CLHEP is released under GPL-3 and LGPL-3 dual licenses since
>>> 2.1.0.0, the Matrix sub-library of CLHEP still has an anti-commercial
>>> clause in its license, e.g.,
>>>
>>>  /* Matrix/Matrix/Matrix.h */
>>>
>>>  // Creation of derivative forms of this software for commercial
>>>  // utilization may be subject to restriction; written permission may be
>>>  // obtained from Cornell University.
>>>
>>> and I failed to convince the upstream to remove this clause. If we
>>> purge the Matrix sub-library to make CLHEP DFSG clean, it will be
>>> useless for Geant4.
> This file ?
>
>  http://alxr.usatlas.bnl.gov/lxr-stb4/source/external/CLHEP/Matrix/Matrix/Matrix.h
>
> seems to be bsd now

BSD plus an extra anti-commercial clause stated below.

> Could we implement a compatible wrapper using libeigen ?

Sure, and the amount of work need to do seems reasonable.


Kind regards,
Lifeng


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