Bug#774858: fastjet: CDF and ATLAS plugins are GPL'ed - new version (3.1.1) available

[Christian Holm Christensen]

Source: fastjet
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

In the README.Debian file it says the ATLAS and CDF plugins are disabled
because of license issues.  However, the classes ALTASConePlugin,
CDFJetCluPlugin, and CDFMidPointPlugin all carry the copyright notice

//----------------------------------------------------------------------
    7 // This file is part of FastJet.
    8 //
    9 //  FastJet is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   10 //  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   11 //  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
   12 //  (at your option) any later version.
   13 //
   14 //  The algorithms that underlie FastJet have required considerable
   15 //  development. They are described in the original FastJet paper,
   16 //  hep-ph/0512210 and in the manual, arXiv:1111.6097. If you use
   17 //  FastJet as part of work towards a scientific publication, please
   18 //  quote the version you use and include a citation to the manual and
   19 //  optionally also to hep-ph/0512210.
   20 //
   21 //  FastJet is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   22 //  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   23 //  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   24 //  GNU General Public License for more details.
   25 //
   26 //  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   27 //  along with FastJet. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
   28 //----------------------------------------------------------------------

which surely is DFSG-free.  The (optional) clause to cite hep-ph/0512210
is not a _must_, and should not effect the DFSG status.

If - for some reason - you need to take out these, make sure you also
patch up fastjet-config to _not_ report these plugins

  $ fastjet-config --list-plugins
  Available plugins:
    SISCone
    CDFCones
    PxCone
    D0RunIICone
    NestedDefs
    TrackJet
    ATLASCone
    CMSIterativeCone
    EECambridge
    Jade

Finally, there's a new version (3.1.1) of fastjet available from the
web-page.

Will you also package the contrib plug-ins?  As far as I can judge by
looking over all the COPYING files at

  https://fastjet.hepforge.org/trac/browser/contrib#contribs 

it seems that all contrib plug-ins are licensend under the GPLv2.

Thank you for packaging this.

Yours,

Christian



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