On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:05, Pauli Virtanen <pav@iki.fi> wrote:
29.10.2011 18:27, Pauli Virtanen kirjoitti:
29.10.2011 15:14, Vladímir Rodríguez kirjoitti:
I have a working alternative to tplquad which I builded from http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=155785&dl=ACM&coll=DL&CFID=66021551&CFTOKEN=74592904 via F2PY. For testing aim you can use Scilab's int3d function (also from this code), I found it faster and smarter. How can we include it in standart Scipy library?
Not possible. ACM owns the copyright of software published in its TOMS magazine, and the ACM software license allows use "solely for academic, research and other similar noncommercial uses". [clip]
Or, at least, this is how it currently apparently works. Whether such restrictions apply to code published tens of years ago (when such license probably didn't exist), I'm not sure.
However, some clarification on the license status of the code is needed before including it. One way to obtain this would be to ask the ACM directly about their stance on this.
Alan Isaac has had success getting a BSD license for ACM TOMS code for use in scipy. Here is the contact information he has used in the past. Deborah Cotton, Copyright & Permissions permissions AT acm.org ACM Publications 2 Penn Plaza, Suite 701** New York, NY 10121-0701 -- 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