Those are not the original Fortran sources. The original Fortran sources are in the public domain as work done by a US federal employee.
http://www.netlib.org/fftpack/ Never trust the license of any code on John Burkardt's site. Track it down to the original sources. On Monday, August 6, 2012, Sturla Molden wrote: > But the Fortran FFTPACK is GPL, or has the licence been changed? > > http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/f77_src/fftpack5.1/fftpack5.1.html > > Sturla > > Sendt fra min iPad > > Den 3. aug. 2012 kl. 07:52 skrev Travis Oliphant > <tra...@continuum.io<javascript:;> > >: > > > This should be completely fine. The fftpack.h file indicates that > fftpack code came from Tela originally anyway and was translated from the > Fortran code FFTPACK. > > > > Good luck with your project. > > > > -Travis > > > > > > On Aug 2, 2012, at 3:44 PM, Damon McDougall wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have a question about the licence for NumPy's codebase. I am currently > >> writing a library and I'd like to release under some BSD-type licence. > >> Unfortunately, my choice to link against MIT's FFTW library (released > >> under the GPL) means that, in its current state, this is not possible. > >> I'm an avid NumPy user and thought to myself that, since NumPy's licence > >> is BSD, I'd be able to use some of the source code (with due credit, of > >> course) instead of FFTW. Is this possible? I mean, can I redistribute > >> *PART* of NumPy's codebase? Namely, the fftpack.c file? I was under the > >> impression that I could only redistribute BSD source code as a whole and > >> then I read the licence more carefully and it states that I can modify > >> the source to suit my needs. I consider 'redistributing a single file > >> and ignoring the other files' as a 'modification' under the BSD > >> definition, but maybe I'm thinking too wishfully here. > >> > >> Any information on this matter would be greatly appreciated since I am a > >> total code licence noob. > >> > >> Thank you. > >> > >> P.S. Yes, I know I could just release under the GPL, but I don't want to > >> turn people off of packaging my work into a useful product licensed > >> under BSD, or even make money from it. > >> > >> -- > >> Damon McDougall > >> http://damon-is-a-geek.com > >> B2.39 > >> Mathematics Institute > >> University of Warwick > >> Coventry > >> West Midlands > >> CV4 7AL > >> United Kingdom > >> _______________________________________________ > >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list > >> NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org <javascript:;> > >> http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > > > > _______________________________________________ > > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org <javascript:;> > > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org <javascript:;> > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > -- Robert Kern
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