[Discuss] BLAS or LAPACK

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2006-06-15 15:21-0700 p.willis at telus.net wrote:

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>
> Hello,
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> Does anyone know if BLAS and/or LAPACK are
> still non-free?

These fortran 77 (and C via the clapack variant) packages have always been
free (as in speech) with an extremely simple license.  See the section
entitled "Are there legal restrictions on the use of LAPACK software?" in
http://www.netlib.org/lapack/faq.html.

>
> If so can anyone recommend a good linear algebra library
> or two that is GPL.

A GPLed library filled with numerical goodies (including linear algebra) is
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ .

It is written in C.

Alan
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