[Debian-med-packaging] Please clarify license of Copyright Los Alamos National Security, LLC files [ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org: librandom123_1.09-1_amd64.changes REJECTED]

[John Salmon]

Those two files were contributed to us by scientists at LANL.  It is
our understanding that their intention was to share them with the
community.

However, if you feel the LANL copyright does not meet your needs,
then you're welcome to redistribute Random123 without those files.
The inclusion of those files is only triggered by the 'xlc' and 'pgcc' 
compilers,
neither of which is part of a Debian distribution.

John Salmon

On 03/16/2017 03:58 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as wrote in my last mail I intend to package Random123 for Debian.
> Before any software can be included into Debian a thorough check of
> licenses is done by our ftpmaster team.  One of them has found issues
> with two files.  Could you please clarify the permission for using and
> disrtibuting these files?
>
> Kind regards
>
>          Andreas.
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Thorsten Alteholz <ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org> -----
>
> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 19:00:11 +0000
> From: Thorsten Alteholz <ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org>
> To: Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging at lists.alioth.debian.org>, Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>
> Subject: librandom123_1.09-1_amd64.changes REJECTED
>
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
> the file headers of:
>   Random123-1.09/include/Random123/features/pgccfeatures.h
>   Random123-1.09/include/Random123/features/xlcfeatures.h
> say:
>
> Copyright (c) 2013, Los Alamos National Security, LLC
> All rights reserved.
>
> "(...)The U.S. Government has rights to use, reproduce, and distribute
> this software.(...)"
>
> But what about my rights?
>
>    Thorsten
>
>
>
>
>
> ===
>
> Please feel free to respond to this email if you don't understand why
> your files were rejected, or if you upload new files which address our
> concerns.
>
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