Re: Geant4 package
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Lifeng Sun <lifongsun@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 11:45 Tue 06/28/11 Jun , Yngve Inntjore Levinsen wrote:
>> > according http://proj-clhep.web.cern.ch/proj-clhep/ and
>> > https://savannah.cern.ch/projects/clhep/
>> > it is now GPL 2 (just see later)
>> Aha, did not notice that before. However, it still states
>> "interdependencies within CLHEP are allowed under certain
>> conditions". I do believe CLHEP is slightly problematic, others are
>> welcome to investigate. I know Lifeng Sun did a while back, but I
>> thought he gave up (?)
>
> 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.
>
> (Maybe we can upload it to non-free?)
>
This file ?
http://alxr.usatlas.bnl.gov/lxr-stb4/source/external/CLHEP/Matrix/Matrix/Matrix.h
seems to be bsd now
> Kind regards,
> Lifeng
>
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