From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12549 invoked by alias); 26 Jan 2007 17:16:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 12528 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Jan 2007 17:16:36 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from alnrmhc12.comcast.net (HELO alnrmhc12.comcast.net) (204.127.225.92) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:16:29 +0000 Received: from hippogriff.homeunix.org ([75.71.67.96]) by comcast.net (alnrmhc12) with ESMTP id <20070126171627b1200q96abe>; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:16:27 +0000 Received: by hippogriff.homeunix.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BA06F579A7; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:16:27 -0700 (MST) Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:16:00 -0000 From: Patrick Alken To: gsl-discuss@sourceware.org Subject: lapack license Message-ID: <20070126171627.GA5627@hippogriff.physics.drexel.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact gsl-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gsl-discuss-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-q1/txt/msg00006.txt.bz2 Hi all, I noticed that the recent release of lapack 3.1.0 contains a license file (finally) which was never present in any previous lapack release. Since there have been discussions on this list in the past of the fuzzy lapack licensing issues, here is the license: --- snip --- Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The University of Tennessee. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: - Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. - Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer listed in this license in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. - Neither the name of the copyright holders nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. --- snip --- I'm not an expert on free software licenses, but it looks like this is similar to the original BSD license due to the "copyright notice must be preserved" clause. Perhaps some more knowledgeable people can comment on whether this is compatible with the GPL, since some of the recent nonsymmetric eigenvalue code added to gsl was ported from lapack. Mainly this would affect the eigenvector solver...most of the eigenvalue code is not from lapack (i think there was just 1 routine which could probably be re-written). Patrick Alken