Walter Bright wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Actually I seem to remember that "Numerical recipes in C" was widely
criticized for having incredibly strong restrictions on the published
code.
The license is, from my copy of the 1987 edition:
"Although this book and its programs are copyrighted, we specifically
authorize you, the reader of this book, to make one machine-readable
copy of each program for your own use. [...] Distribution of
machine-readable programs (either as copied by you or as purchased) to
any other person is not authorized."
I'll have to dig my copy out and see if it's any better. Really, if the
code can't even legally be used internally for an application developed
by a team of programmers then the book is nearly worthless.
