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Re: lapack license
At Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:57:21 -0700,
Patrick Alken wrote:
> After reviewing the BSD licenses, it appears that the lapack
> license is identical to the "modified BSD" license, which is
> compatible with the GPL according to www.gnu.org.
>
> To comply with lapack's license, it seems we need to include
> a copy of it with GSL though, since eigen/nonsymmv.c and
> eigen/schur.c contain a few lapack routines.
That's ok, other GNU software also includes routines under the
modified BSD license (e.g. the GNU C Library). Just add the notice in
the affected files with a note "Based on original code from LAPACK:
....". If there are files where you have some independently written
routines it may make sense to split them so it is clear which parts
are covered each license.
I will add the disclaimer into the reference manual.
--
Brian Gough