Damir Buskulic writes: > Since Numerical Recipes is not free software, in the sense that you have > to pay a minimal fee, I don't think that it is possible to include this > code in ROOT. Am I wrong ? >From http://www.nr.com/: Can I distribute NR routines with my application? Bound "invisibly" into your executable .exe file? Generally yes. As source code, linkable object libraries, or DLLs? Sorry, no. Details are at: http://www.nr.com/infotop.html#distinfo In short their licence is not free in the DFSG sense and is not compatible with the GPL, under which parts of ROOT are licensed. But then the same can be said about $ROOTSYS/LICENSE.... However, learning how a method works from reading NR and coding it up and licensing the result as you see fit is allowed as far as I know. -Brett.
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