[SciPy-Dev] Powell's derivative-free optimization methods

[Sturla Molden]

On 17/06/15 20:30, Robert Kern wrote:
> https://ccpforge.cse.rl.ac.uk/gf/project/powell/scmsvn/?action=browse&path=%2Ftrunk%2Fcobyla%2Freadme.txt&view=markup&revision=2&pathrev=2
>
> Specifically: "There are no restrictions on the use of the software, nor
> do I offer any guarantees of success."
>
> At the time we imported the code, that was the (informal) license.His
> executors have recently rereleased it under a different license after
> his passing. That one does not remove the permission we received earlier.

Then it would be nice to have this documented in the code, e.g. by 
copying his informal statement as a comment in the Fortran code.


Sturla