[SciPy-User] Numerical Recipes and scipy

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Peter Parente <parente at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm considering using SciPy in a commercial application. The SciPy code
> makes reference to the Numerical Recipes book in various places
> (https://github.com/scipy/scipy/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=numerical+recipes).
> The NR license terms restrict the translation and distribution of derivative
> works, especially for commercial purposes
> (http://www.nr.com/licenses/redistribute.html). I polled the list to see if
> anyone could answer if the references are purely for educational purposes or
> provenance of the SciPy implementations.

Yes, it would be very useful to have a wiki page going through the
various mentions of NR with a one-line record of the check made for NR
code.

Who did these checks originally? Does anyone remember?

Cheers,

Matthew