Hi Rene, Brett, Damir, and fellow rooters, Ooops, I never thought it could be that complicated :^( I'm not really conversant on license issues (guess I'd better start learning now, hehehe...) so I can't comment much. Anyhow, I hope my post helps somebody else out there :^) Best regards, Allister Brett Viren wrote: >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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