On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 3:03 AM, dmitrey <dmitrey.kroshko@scipy.org> wrote:
hi all, here's a fortran routine bvls, free for non-commercial purposes: http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/general/bvls
Could anyone contact to the authors of the routine and propose them make it available in terms of GPL/LGPL or, moreover, BSD license?
I have already working Python interface (via f2py, thanks to Pearu Peterson for assist), so, if BSD - it could be connected to scipy.
In anyway, this routine would be of great interest in scikits.openopt users, because solvers ralg and lincher could be enhanced (in case of >1 constraints), and, of course, mere bvls solver could be included to LLSP class.
Authors of the routine, as it is mentioned in the file header, are
Robert L. Parker Philip B. Stark Scripps Institution of Oceanography Department of Statistics University of California, San Diego University of California La Jolla CA 92093 Berkeley CA 94720-3860 rlparker@ucsd.edu stark@stat.berkeley.edu
I would contact the authors of the routine by myself, but IIRC some scipy developers work in this university and have better English language knowledge.
I used to work there, but I really doubt that they will consider a change of license. They really do want to restrict its use to non-commercial purposes. Or rather, the Technology Transfer Department of UCSD does. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco