On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 at 17:14, Santiago Torres-Arias via aur-general < [email protected]> 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?
