[petsc-dev] Random123

[Tobin Isaac]

Thanks.  I'm just a simple caveman academic: your private sector
research frightens and confuses me!


On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 09:32:29PM -0500, Barry Smith wrote:
> 
>    Heck we have repos of things with far more stringent silly licenses :-)
> 
>   Barry
> 
> > On Sep 5, 2017, at 7:45 PM, Karl Rupp <rupp at iue.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Toby,
> > 
> > FYI: the Random123 license is just what is commonly referred to as the 2-clause BSD license:
> > https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause
> > I don't see any problem with making a repo for it and using it for a PetscRandom implementation (IANAL).
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Karli
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 09/05/2017 06:26 PM, Tobin Isaac wrote:
> >> I just came across Random123 [1]: portable, parallel, high-quality pseudorandom number generators.  It's developed by DE Shaw, but the license [2] looks to me like we should be able to make a repo for it and use it as a PetscRandom implementation.  Does anyone savvier than me want to look at the license and see if I'm missing something?
> >> Cheers,
> >>   Toby
> >> [1]: https://doi.org/10.1145/2063384.2063405
> >> [2]: http://www.deshawresearch.com/downloads/download_random123.cgi/Random123_License.txt
> 
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