I am planning to package Geant 4 for Fedora, but I noticed Geant4's license is different from an usual one, which can be found here [1], I don't know if this is acceptable, if so, can you please add this to the 'Good License' list?
And this toolkit can be funicational only with a number of datasets, mostly released by National Nuclear Data Center, I can't find any license attached to those data files. National Nuclear Data Center gives a term of use here [2] saying
Users should feel free to use the information from NuDat 2 (tables and plots) in their work, reports, presentations, articles and books.
A general citations list of those datasets can be found here [3]. Seems that all of that data is royalty-free but instead of being released as a part of a software, it is more likely to be released as scientific papers. I think the term here [4] can apply here, but unsure.
So I need help from the legal team to determine if this is acceptable.
[1]: https://github.com/Geant4/geant4/blob/master/LICENSE [2]: https://www.nndc.bnl.gov/nudat2/help/index.jsp [3]: https://geant4.web.cern.ch/support/data_files_citations [4]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:LicensingGuidelines?rd=Packaging/Li...
On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 10:29 AM Qiyu Yan yanqiyu@fedoraproject.org wrote:
I am planning to package Geant 4 for Fedora, but I noticed Geant4's license is different from an usual one, which can be found here [1], I don't know if this is acceptable, if so, can you please add this to the 'Good License' list?
My initial reaction from reading this is that it's not OK.
Richard