Xref: utzoo comp.lang.fortran:702 sci.math:3898 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!eagle!trh 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. Lines: 24 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