Re: Re: Access to the TFluka code

Dear Dmitry,

      I do understand your disarray, however let me attract your attention on the fact that the FLUKA license explicitly forbids usage of FLUKA with VMC, unless you obtain a special permission from the FLUKA team. This fact is also mentioned in the README file that accompanies the fluka_vmc code. This is a uncommon situation in our world, where Open Source is the norm, and this explains the fact that you have used the interface without paying attention to this issue. I suggest you to ask immediately for this permission to Giuseppe Battistoni <Giuseppe.Battistoni_at_mi.infn.it> with copy to me, describing the nature of your work and why you need fluka_vmc. Thanks for the attention and best regards,

Federico Carminati
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On 10 Nov 2009, at 13:55, Dmitry Naumov wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> these are really very sad news. We invested a lot of efforts and
> time working with vmc just because we wanted to have a control of
> physics implemented in G4 and FLUKA for our detector within the same
> framework. We are not a part of the experiments listed in the e-mail
> of Federico. However already several years we use VMC with G4, G3
> and FLUKA and systematically check our results with all three
> "propagators". Should we stop using Fluka from now on? Are we left
> outside from further developments of FLUKA vmc?
>
> Actually I do not understand the reason for such an action. FLUKA
> VMC is an open source software which does not matter much without
> the FLUKA code itself. However in order to get FLUKA one should pass
> all FLUKA needed steps like registering, asking permission to use
> FLUKA etc. And in the end one signs a paper explicitly stating to
> properly cite FLUKA etc ( If I am not wrong, it was quite time ago
> when I did this myself). Where is a loophole here ? What is the
> matter how one calls FLUKA routines afterwards: explicitly or via an
> interface?
>
> Thank you, Dmitry
>
>
Received on Tue Nov 10 2009 - 11:19:51 CET