From: Giuseppe Battistoni (Giuseppe.Battistoni@mi.infn.it)
Date: Tue Aug 02 2005 - 09:31:13 CEST
Dear FLUKA user,
As a coordinator of the FLUKA collaboration, I am proud to announce that
the new FLUKA release, Fluka2005.6, is now available on the FLUKA web site
and mirrors.
This release is a major step forward with many and relevant new features
(read carefully the attached release notes). Please notice in particular
the elimination of e.m. preprocessor (pemf) and the change in common and
variable names for iser routines. Furthermore, it is the first release
occurring in the framework of the INFN-CERN Collaboration Agreement for the
Development, Maintenance and Release of the FLUKA software. INFN and CERN
have also formalized a licensing scheme (attached to this message) covering
all versions of the modern FLUKA or parts of, as developed since 1989 by
A.Fasso`, A.Ferrari, J.Ranft and P.R.Sala. It contains no significant
difference with respect to the draft License used in previous releases and
it allows free use for Scientific Institutions. As a new important step,
this new License concerns now the possibility to download the FLUKA source
code. The source release will be initially limited to INFN, CERN and a few
other Institutions, and later extended to all the scientific community.
According to the License, all users are supposed to use up-to-date versions
of the code. The License applies also to any version or parts of FLUKA
since 1989, provided by the Authors, pro bona fide, on a personal basis:
whoever got such a software and whishes to continue to make use of FLUKA,
is urged to migrate to this new release. The use of versions or parts of
which are no longer (or were never) authorized will be considered an
infringement of the INFN-CERN Copyright.
Notice for users of FLUKA within CORSIKA: for the moment the new FLUKA
version is probably not usable: the interface to CORISKA must be updated
and this will be done after the current summer.
For whichever question or assistance, please contact the Fluka Scientific
Committee (see below). For questions about the License, please contact
myself.
Let me also transmit for your knowledge the announcement that has been
unanimously approved by the INFN-CERN FLUKA coordinating committee (FCC)
endorsed by INFN and CERN management:
"The FLUKA Coordinating Committee (FCC)
is very pleased to announce that as of July 26th 2005 the main tasks
falling under its mandate have now been completed.
The current status may be summarised as follows :
- a new version of Fluka (FLUKA 2005.6) containing significant
scientific and technical enhancements is now ready for public release
- the release includes source code and binaries together with release
notes
- the technical Users' Manual has been finished and will be published
immediately as a CERN Yellow Report
- the FLUKA Software License describing the conditions of use of the
Fluka code has been established to coincide with the release
- According to the FLUKA Collaboration Agreement, CERN and INFN engage
themselves and their personnel to recognize as FLUKA only what is
obtained from the official web site (www.fluka.org). In particular, the
use of non-authorized versions or parts of them and improper referencing
in official publications will be avoided.
- users of FLUKA needing assistance to migrate to this new version are
encouraged to contact a member of the recently established FLUKA
Scientific Committee(*) for assistance."
I wish to thank the INFN and CERN Management for the support given to
the whole operation and their warm endorsement of this announcement.
Best regards
Giuseppe Battistoni
(Chairman of the FCC)
(*) The current membership of the FSC is as follows:
Giuseppe Battistoni INFN / Milano
Federico Carminati CERN / PH
Alberto Fasso SLAC
Alfredo Ferrari CERN / AB
Andrea Ottolenghi INFN and University of Pavia
Johannes Ranft Siegen University
Stefan Roesler CERN / SC
Paola Sala INFN / Milano
Vasilis Vlachoudis CERN / AB
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