[Python-Dev] Mesenne Twister copyright notice

[M.-A. Lemburg]

python@rcn.com wrote:
> During his review of the Mersenne Twister code (in python/nondist/sandbox/twister), Martin raised a question for python-dev about the best way to handle the copyright notice in the original code at http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~matumoto/MT2002/emt19937ar.html .
> 
> I incorporated the copyright notice into the head of _random.c, but the notice seems to indicate that it should also be in the documentation (either in librandom.tex or random.py).  I don't think having multiple copies of the copyright notice or having clutter in the LaTeX docs is desirable.  Inclusion by reference or footnote may be sufficient.
> 
> Do you guys have any thoughts on the best way to resolve this one?  It is my only unanswered review comment for the module before loading it for the alpha release.

The usual way to deal with this is to include a .txt/.doc file in the
module directory where the module is placed. Examples are the LICENSE.txt
file and the various .doc files we already have in the std lib directory.

I'd suggest to include a twister.txt file together with the module
which then includes the copyright notice.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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