Re: Re: Access to the TFluka code

Dear Federico
thank you! I will do it. Kind regards, Dmitry

Carminati Federico пишет:
> 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
> CERN-PH
> 1211 Geneva 23
> Switzerland
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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 - 11:29:32 CET