[SciPy-User] Numerical Recipes and scipy

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 9:54 PM,  <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Peter Parente <parente at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm considering using SciPy in a commercial application. The SciPy code
>>> makes reference to the Numerical Recipes book in various places
>>> (https://github.com/scipy/scipy/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=numerical+recipes).
>>> The NR license terms restrict the translation and distribution of derivative
>>> works, especially for commercial purposes
>>> (http://www.nr.com/licenses/redistribute.html). I polled the list to see if
>>> anyone could answer if the references are purely for educational purposes or
>>> provenance of the SciPy implementations.
>>
>> Yes, it would be very useful to have a wiki page going through the
>> various mentions of NR with a one-line record of the check made for NR
>> code.
>>
>> Who did these checks originally? Does anyone remember?
>
> In the mailing list thread that is linked to in the original post we
> went over those parts of scipy where code comments referenced NR and
> we checked those.  ("we" are the participants on that thread.)
> I guess, based on the github search, and based on that the references
> to NR that still show up are all only in the "Reference" sections,
> that they are only part of the documentation but have no direct link
> to the actual implementation.
>
> I remember that there were at least some comments about this for
> specific items, but I don't know or remember any details.

PyMatrixID and Savitsky-Golay is more recent code with reference to NR.

the random numer generator fortran file in interpolative has NR as
only reference.

Josef

>
> Josef
>
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Matthew
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