wfmath_1.0.1-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Paul Tagliamonte]

On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 11:41:34AM -0400, Stephen M. Webb wrote:
> > // The original code included the following notice:
> > //
> > //     When you use this, send an email to: matumoto at math.keio.ac.jp
> > //     with an appropriate reference to your work.
> 
> The source file in question, wfmath/MersenneTwister.h, is authored by Richard J. Wagner <rjwagner at writeme.com> and is
> distributed under the BSD 3-clause license.  It is an extension of the original implementation of the Mersenne Twister
> algorithm by Shawn Cokus <cokus at math.washington.edu>.

(therefore a derived work)

> When the Mersenne Twister was originally published, it's creators Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura requested that
> anyone who used the algorithm send them an email.  It was not a requirement, but their web page [1] still carries that
> request.

The wording in that file is not a request, rather, it's quite
compulsory. Can you please find a statement saying this *is* a request
from the author and not a requirement (it reads as a requirement to me)

> At the time that Shawn Cokus wrote his original implementation the Matsumoto and Nishimura implementation carried the
> request to send an email as reproduced in the Wagner implementation's header file.  Wagner conformed to the

Again, this wording is not a request. I get the impression terms may
have changed at some point, as I've pointed out.

> then-conditions of the algorithm's distribution license as can bee audited at [2].  The inclusion of that text in a
> comment in the header file is an interesting historical note, but not a condition of redistribution of Wagner's source
> code.  It is also not a restriction on the use of the algorithm, since the condition of the algorithm authors is a
> request and not a mandatory condition.

If it's copied the code, it's subject to the same terms. Again, it's not
a request as worded above.

> Since the distribution license of this source file is BSD-3 and simply contains a comment of historical interest, I
> would argue that it is not in fact DFSG non-free.  I would also note that it is not a new source file or package in

Again, this does not read as a request.


Cheers,
  Paul


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