Re: RFS: cernlib + mclibs + geant321 + paw

[Lifeng Sun <lifongsun@gmail.com>]

Hi Mathieu,

On 11:08 Wed 04/13/11 Apr, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> What are you plans ? Just asking if you are going to package geant4 ?

It's sadly that Geant4 cannot enter Debian due to license issue[1].
There was once another issue that Geant4 links against CLHEP, a HEP
library never properly licensed. Since version 2.1.0.0, however, CLHEP
is released under GPL-3/LGPL-3, so there is only one license issue
now.

I'd try to package the following programs,

CLHEP
HepMC
Pythia8, and its plugin VINCIA
Herwig++
LoopTools
FastJet, SISCone
ThePEG
LHAPDF
Rivet

Serveral of them provide ROOT plugin, so maybe I'd first try to get
ROOT back to Debian.


[1] http://geant4.cern.ch/license/LICENSE.html
    Clause 5 is anti-patent, hence incompatible with DFSG.

    5. You may not include this software in whole or in part in any
    patent or patent application in respect of any modification of
    this software developed by you.


Kind regards,
- Lifeng

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