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From: trh@eagle.ukc.ac.uk (T.R.Hopkins)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,sci.math
Subject: S/ware distribution restrictions
Keywords: Software, distribution, Restricted Nuclear Technology Transfer List
Message-ID: <5136@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 31 May 88 18:22:04 GMT
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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I have just read an advertisement from `The Matrix Calculating
Engine Inc' (MACE) of Wisconsin offering the LINPACK and EISPACK
Fortran Linear Algebra Packages for PC's. A footnote states that
both packages are on the Restricted Nuclear Technology Transfer List
and that distribution of the sources to many countries (I assume
Eastern Bloc) is restricted.

1) I thought that both LINPACK and EISPACK were in the Public Domain --
   can they be both PD and on the RNTTL list?

2) What other software is on this list and where do I get a copy of the
   list from?

3) What is the point of publishing the source codes in book form
  (i.e., The Linpack Users Guide and the Eispack volumes from
   Springer Verlag) and then restricting the distribution of machine
   readable form? Or are the books also on the list? Or can't the Russians
   type .... :-)

   Any information and comments would be welcome


   Tim