On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 at 17:14, Santiago Torres-Arias via aur-general < aur-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
2) It appears that the copyright owner is Adapco, not siemens. IIUC Siemens bought Adapco on 2016. Did you guys forget to update the copyright notice or is this an old tarball that was distributed before?
Apparently the link comes from the SVN of VisIt [1], a visualisation and analysis software by the Department of Energy of the US Government. According to the building notes of version 1.9.0 of VisIt [2], it is apparent that the disputed library could be freely accessed from the FTP server of Adapco [3] back then. I am not a lawyer, so I don't know if this holds any weight, but it doesn't appear like someone stole the code, it looks plausible that the VisIt developers secured permission to redistribute it at some point. [1]: https://wci.llnl.gov/simulation/computer-codes/visit/ [2]: http://visit.ilight.com/svn/visit/tags/1.9.0/src/BUILD_NOTES [3]: ftp://ftp.adapco.com/pub/outgoing/libccmio-2.6.1.tar.gz
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 02:53:36PM +0000, Jones, Philip via aur-general wrote:
Jerome
I appreciate that the package ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libccmio/) is not hosted on the site but if you Google " libccmio-2.6.1.tar.gz" it is the top hit.
The source has a copyright that states “The unauthorized use, distribution, or duplication of this program is prohibited.”
The key word to me seems "unauthorized". Do we know for a fact that the US Gov. did not secure permission to redistribute this code?