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In article <1993Jan12.204430.17861@mailhost.ocs.mq.edu.au>, wskelly@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au (William
Skelly) writes:
|>Does anyone know whether the authors of numerical recipes
|>(Press, Flannery, Teukolsky and Vetterling) allow their
|>routines to be used in public domain software?

On my edition, I read:

"To purchase diskettes in IBM PC or Apple Macintosh formats, use the
 order form [...]  Unlicensed transfer of Numerical Recipes programs
 from the abovementioned IBM PC or Apple Macintosh diskettes to
 any other format, or to any other computer except a single IBM PC
 or Apple Macintosh or compatible for each diskette purchased, is
 strictly prohibited."

So, just compiling one of their routines on a IBM RS/6000 or HP or Cray ...
automatically implies that a crime has been perpetrated.

But ...wait!  Look carefully!  The note is concerned about a copy *from
the diskette* to another machine.  
But since the source is published, you can type it by hand into a file,
and then that file can be transferred here and there without restrictions :-)

But this still leaves your question open ... 

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Furio Ercolessi
Materials Research Laboratory           |   Intl School for Advanced Studies
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign   |   Trieste, Italy
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