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randlib licence
From: |
Petr Gajdos |
Subject: |
randlib licence |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:13:29 +0200 |
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Hi,
I maintain package octave and I've been warned of possible licence
incompatibility of randlib:
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LEGALITIES
Code that appeared in an ACM publication is subject to their
algorithms policy:
Submittal of an algorithm for publication in one of the ACM
Transactions implies that unrestricted use of the algorithm within a
computer is permissible. General permission to copy and distribute
the algorithm without fee is granted provided that the copies are not
made or distributed for direct commercial advantage. The ACM
copyright notice and the title of the publication and its date appear,
and notice is given that copying is by permission of the Association
for Computing Machinery. To copy otherwise, or to republish, requires
a fee and/or specific permission.
Krogh, F. Algorithms Policy. ACM Tran. Math. Softw. 13(1987),
183-186.
We place the Randlib code that we have written in the public domain.
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I think problematic are these functions linked to octave:
setall -- setting random SEEDs (included in ACM),
setsd -- setting random SEEDs (included in ACM),
getsd -- setting random SEEDs (included in ACM),
dgennor -- normal distribution (???),
dgenunf -- uniform distribution (???).
Could you please tell me whether or not and with which way the ACM licensed
code is actually linked?
Petr
- randlib licence,
Petr Gajdos <=