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In article <kbtchj_00WB5EK4X07@andrew.cmu.edu> tm2b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Todd L. Masco) writes:
>After receiving some mail from a few people (thank you) and reading
>the introduction to NR in C, I see that they have a ridiculous copyright
>policy, authorizing the buyer to make one (1) machine readable copy of
>the code.
>
>This is really absurd -- taken literally, as all legal things have to
>be, it means that I am not allowed to, say, compile any of their code
>with VAX C with the /LIST specifier set.  Nor am I allowed keep my
>source in more than one place -- backups, anyone?   What if I have a
>scanner and some text recognition code? 

Worse than this... as I recall, if you do purchase a PC disk with
the source code (from the publisher), you are prohibited from uploading 
it to another system.  So, I really can't use Numerical Recipes code
on a VAX or a Unix system without typing it in myself, line by 
line, resulting in the additional problem of having to weed out
my typing mistakes, which isn't easy (given their coding style and my
typing precision).  This damn near makes the book entirely useless, 
since I have to go to IMSL (proprietary) or NAG (proprietary) or Linpack 
(thank God for netlib, BTW) instead...

Marc

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