>From COPYING, "Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met"
--Mike On 7/31/07, Bill Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oh well, I don't understand all this licensing stuff. So do you > understand this license? What about derived works. Does that mean it > is not possible to modify this library and redistribute the modified > version? > > In particular, as a C++ library it is no use to me unmodified. There > are also some functions I'd like to add, and the calling convention is > the opposite to what I use. So basically I'd have to modify it to make > it useful. > > Bill. > > On 31 Jul, 20:35, "Pablo De Napoli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In this case, the license does not says that it is in the public domain > > (but that it is a copyrighted work!), but you can use it as > > "AS IS". > > I think that the only condition that is imposed to us is > > to include the declaimer. > > > > Pablo > > > > On 7/31/07, Pablo De Napoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Certainly no, not everything from a public institution is in the > > > public domain. This > > > should be analyzed case by case. > > > In case of doubt it would be better to ask the author. > > > > > Pablo > > > > > On 7/31/07, Bill Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Yes, I've ended up using Hida and Bailey's quad-double package. Very > > > > cool. > > > > > > But the license just says not to use the LB name to promote any > > > > derived product. Am I right in assuming this is GPL compatible, i.e. > > > > because they are a public institution everything is automatically > > > > public domain? > > > > > > Bill. > > > > > > On 31 Jul, 06:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Last update, 2005? > > > > > > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Bill Hart wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Didier, > > > > > > > > Thanks. I also just found: > > > > > > > >http://www.nongnu.org/hpalib/ > > > > > > > > which fascinates me. Has anyone used it? > > > > > > > > Bill. > > > > > > > > On 31 Jul, 01:46, "didier deshommes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> 2007/7/30, Bill Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > >>> I have a similar problem in some code I am currently > > > > > >>> writing. I need precisely quad precision, so mpfr is out of the > > > > > >>> question. > > > > > > > >> Hi Bill, > > > > > >> You might want to consider Yozo Hida's quaddouble C/C++ package > > > > > >> here:http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~yozo/ > > > > > > > >> There is also a wrapper for it in SAGE. > > > > > > > >> didier > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
