[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]

[Andreas Tille]

Hi John,

thanks a lot for the quick and helpful clarification

    Andreas.

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 04:59:03PM -0400, John Salmon wrote:
> 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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