[Python-Dev] Mersenne Twister

[Oren Tirosh]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:43:28PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:
> [Raymond Hettinger]
> > ...
> > The C code I saw is covered by a BSD license -- I don't
> > know if that's an issue or not.
> 
> That's fine, provided it doesn't have the dreaded "advertising clause".  I
> personally don't care whether it does -- it's the FSF that has bug up their
> butt about that one.  I expect we'd have to reproduce their copyright notice

The Mersenne Twister distribution is now under the Artistic License.

http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~matumoto/eartistic.html

	Oren