Re: Numerical Recipes stuff

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From: Ajay Shah
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 06:29

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mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu (Darrell McCauley) writes:

>Now a question: has anyone compiled a list of replacement routines
>for those found in NR? By replacement routines, I mean net sources
>(anonymous ftp) that can be redistributed with PD software. Would
>such a list be legal if it included the names of corresponding
>NR routines? Would it be legal/ethical to redistribute such a list?
>(I have the humble beginnings of a list.)

Of course it's legal and ethically appropriate to work on
such a list.  I'm incredibly irritated at NR for not making their
code open (like Linpack, say).

To the extent that the code has appeared in print, it's hard for them
to sue anyone; you can't prove in court of law that I did not type out
the code from the book.  Functions like dmatrix() are the only real
catch.  I have a full (and superior) reimplementation of these.
Send me email for more info; they will appear by ftp "soon".

        -ans.
-- 
Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu

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