[SciPy-Dev] BSD C port of FFTPACK incl. bluestein algorithm

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I've been in touch with Martin Reinecke, author of the libpsht code for 
spherical harmonic transforms, about licensing issues.

libpsht itself will remain under the GPL, but he is likely to release 
his C port of FFTPACK under BSD in the near future, as it is based on 
the public domain FFTPACK.

I'm grateful for this change for my own purposes (allows releasing my 
own competing SHT library under the BSD) -- but it could perhaps be 
useful for NumPy or SciPy as well, depending on how complete the port 
is? E.g., perhaps make numpy.fft more complete (is the 
numpy.fft/scipy.fftpack split simply because of the Fortran dependency?).

Not sure about whether all of FFTPACK or a subset is included, but it 
does include a Bluestein implementation in addition.

http://libpsht.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libpsht/libfftpack/


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