[SciPy-Dev] Levenberg-Marquardt Implementation

[alex]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:25 PM, Evgeni Burovski
> <evgeny.burovskiy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> FWIW, One other possiblity for constrained minimization would be to
>> wrap BOBYQA by Powell.
>>
>> (Disclaimer: All I know about it is from skimming this paper
>> www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/na/NA_papers/NA2009_06.pdf
>> and talking to people in PyData London last weekend.)
>>
>> As far as I understand,
>>
>> * it's a state of the art minimizer
>> * the original Fortran code is in public domain
>
> I see no indication of this.

The readme says "There are no restrictions on or charges for the use
of the software." which may or may not be phrased using enough legal
jargon to allow corporations to do whatever they want with it.