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GSL legal question
- From: Jonathan Leto <jonathan at leto dot net>
- To: gsl-discuss <gsl-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 04:47:36 -0500
- Subject: GSL legal question
- Reply-to: jonathan at leto dot net
I was just reading
http://sources.redhat.com/gsl/design/gsl-design_2.html#SEC35
where it states that GSL shouldn't reference Numerical Recipes
because it is not free, but rng/ran[0,1,2,3].c do just this.
>From rng/ran3.c :
/* This is an implementation of the algorithm used in Knuths's
subtractive generator, with the Numerical Recipe's ran3 paramters.
It is a subtractive lagged fibonnaci generator. */
Is this kosher?
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