[petsc-dev] Random123

[Jed Brown]

It is the 3-clause BSD license, with the third clause formatted in a funny way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#3-clause_license_.28.22BSD_License_2.0.22.2C_.22Revised_BSD_License.22.2C_.22New_BSD_License.22.2C_or_.22Modified_BSD_License.22.29

Tobin Isaac <tisaac at cc.gatech.edu> writes:

> 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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