[SciPy-Dev] Levenberg-Marquardt Implementation

[Sturla Molden]

william ratcliff <william.ratcliff at gmail.com> wrote:
> This issue does seem to come up regularly.   There is a BSD licensed
> version:
> <a href="https://github.com/newville/lmfit-py">https://github.com/newville/lmfit-py</a>
> 
> For mpfit.py, at one point, I got license permissions for scipy from the
> original authors, but no one wanted to include it.   Has that changed?  I
> haven't followed the issue since 2012.

I just looked briefly at the code. It seems to use scipy.optimize.leastsq
for Levenberg-Marquardt, so what is the extra benefit?

Sturla