"Share" is too strong. He released a number of functions in the library I linked to, and the only requirement of the license seems to be we maintain the copyright notice and say what we changed:
/* Copyright (c) 1995-2003 by Radford M. Neal * * Permission is granted for anyone to copy, use, modify, or distribute this * program and accompanying programs and documents for any purpose, provided * this copyright notice is retained and prominently displayed, along with * a note saying that the original programs are available from Radford Neal's * web page, and note is made of any changes made to the programs. The * programs and documents are distributed without any warranty, express or * implied. As the programs were written for research purposes only, they have * not been tested to the degree that would be advisable in any important * application. All use of these programs is entirely at the user's own risk. */ I can also just email him directly. -- David On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Avoid Numerical Recipes if you want to avoid license issues. Their > publisher has a strong history of being very strict about their > interpretation of what they think they own. > > If Radford Neal has an implementation that he would share, I would count > that as a great contribution. > > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 2:09 PM, David Hall <d...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote: > >> >> Alternatively, I can try to track down a book (Numerical Recipes?) >> with pseudocode. > > > > > -- > Ted Dunning, CTO > DeepDyve >
