* Stephen Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-31 16:41]: > i (and many others too) do most of my day to day convex optimization > work using cvx, which has a GNU license, but unfortunately, runs on top > of matlab. our plan (hope? goal?) however is to develop a full GNU > system for modeling and solving convex optimization problems. lieven's > CVXOPT is a good start along these lines, but i am not sure how easy or > hard it is to tie python/C into octave. if you are interested in > optimization software for octave, i'd be happy to chat; maybe we can > help (beyond changing the license on ancient, but working, software to GNU).
Thanks for your prompt reply. I appreciate your efforts for clarifying the license terms of semidef_prog, together with . I suspected that semidef_prog was already an old albeit working software. I do not use optimization software very frequently and my interest is to insure that the octave-sp package (derived from semidef_prog) will not disappear from Debian. Note that the number of users who already installed the package is non-negligible [1]. As regards your proposal to get your more recent software ported to Octave, I think it is a great idea. The 2.9.* series of Octave has a improved Matlab compatibility level, so the chances your packages will run on Octave are increased. Moreover there is already a group of developers of the Octave-Forge project [2] working on optimization. They might be interested in including your new software in their package [3]. At any rate, the more urgent thing to do is to clarify the semidef_prog license terms, such that the package can be kept in Debian. [1] http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=semidef-oct [2] http://octave.sourceforge.net/ [3] http://octave.sourceforge.net/optim/index.html Regards, -- Rafael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
