[sage-devel] Re: License lawyers

2009-02-21 Thread Nick Alexander
> Anything skanky milling around in those "subroutine comments"? Thank you all for your attention, but it turns out that Cholesky decomposition can be naively computed via trivial recursions. 6 lines. Now it may not be numerically stable... but it's easy :) Nick --~--~-~--~~--

[sage-devel] Re: License lawyers

2009-02-21 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Feb 19, 2009, at 21:50 , Nick Alexander wrote: > > Hi, > > The following is the BSD-like license of some MPFR cholesky > decomposition code I might like to use. Is this sage-able? > > Nick > > (* > Copyright (c) 1992-200

[sage-devel] Re: License lawyers

2009-02-19 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Nick Alexander wrote: > > > On 19-Feb-09, at 10:38 PM, William Stein wrote: > >> >> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Nick Alexander > > wrote: >>> So it looks like this is a BSD license for all intents and purposes. >>> >>> The author claims it is BSD licen

[sage-devel] Re: License lawyers

2009-02-19 Thread Nick Alexander
On 19-Feb-09, at 10:38 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Nick Alexander > wrote: >> >>> So it looks like this is a BSD license for all intents and purposes. >> >> The author claims it is BSD license with 3 clauses. It seems that a >> naive Cholesky is a few dozen l

[sage-devel] Re: License lawyers

2009-02-19 Thread Jason Grout
Nick Alexander wrote: >> So it looks like this is a BSD license for all intents and purposes. > > The author claims it is BSD license with 3 clauses. It seems that a > naive Cholesky is a few dozen lines, so I could probably just crack a > text book :) Well, I think the point is that there

[sage-devel] Re: License lawyers

2009-02-19 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Nick Alexander wrote: > >> So it looks like this is a BSD license for all intents and purposes. > > The author claims it is BSD license with 3 clauses. It seems that a > naive Cholesky is a few dozen lines, so I could probably just crack a > text book :) Just o

[sage-devel] Re: License lawyers

2009-02-19 Thread Nick Alexander
> So it looks like this is a BSD license for all intents and purposes. The author claims it is BSD license with 3 clauses. It seems that a naive Cholesky is a few dozen lines, so I could probably just crack a text book :) Thanks for the replies. Nick --~--~-~--~~~--

[sage-devel] Re: License lawyers

2009-02-19 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Nick Alexander wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The following is the BSD-like license of some MPFR cholesky >> decomposition code I might like to use. Is this sage-able? >> >> Nick > > It doesn't raise any red flags for me. I do wonder -- precisely ho

[sage-devel] Re: License lawyers

2009-02-19 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Nick Alexander wrote: > > Hi, > > The following is the BSD-like license of some MPFR cholesky > decomposition code I might like to use. Is this sage-able? > > Nick It doesn't raise any red flags for me. I do wonder -- precisely how does it differ from the BSD l