GNU Scientific Library in D
Walter Bright
newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Fri Aug 3 23:00:43 PDT 2007
Don Clugston wrote:
> I don't think so. Most of the Numerical Recipes code is itself cloned
> from published articles. It's easy enough to clone it by going back to
> the original sources. I doubt that the NR license would even be
> enforceable, in general -- their code often even uses the same variable
> names as were used in the original Algol code! There's not much original
> code in NR. (The big contribution of NR was to collate all the algorithms).
That doesn't stop some 'tards from claiming copyright infringement. I
had some people accuse me of stealing their code once upon a time. In
front of an arbitrator, they couldn't explain the etymology of
(supposedly) their own variable names, while I could.
They lost.
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