Thanks for looking into it, Rob. In the absence of a license, the code is technically not free to use. But I imagine the authors would like to share their code, so it should be easy to convince them to use something formal like the MIT or BSD licenses.
— John On Mar 29, 2014, at 5:52 PM, Robert J Goedman <[email protected]> wrote: > John, > > No license is mentioned on the c++ code nor on the matlab versions as far as > I can see. > > I'll send the authors an email. > > Regards, > Rob J. Goedman > [email protected] > > > > > On Mar 29, 2014, at 5:47 PM, John Myles White <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> This looks really cool. Any idea what the license was on the original file? >> >> — John >> >> On Mar 29, 2014, at 5:43 PM, Robert J Goedman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> As a first 'jump into the fray' exercise I've attempted to translate >>> Jeffrey Fike's hyper-dual numbers code from c++ to Julia, more or less >>> following the DualNumbers package. >>> >>> The c++ code can be found at http://adl.stanford.edu/hyperdual/hyperdual.h >>> . The paper itself at >>> http://adl.stanford.edu/hyperdual/Fike_AIAA-2011-886.pdf . >>> >>> The Julia package can be found at: >>> https://github.com/goedman/HyperDualNumbers.jl.git . >>> >>> Of course, I'm pretty new at this so I'm sure there will be errors and poor >>> practices. So any feedback is appreciated. >>> >>> Also, I'm wondering if the type should be called Hyper or a better name >>> would be HyperDual. >>> >>> This work was triggered by the interesting threads around openPP, >>> TaylorSeries.jl, Calculus2, PowerSeries.jl (and at some time I hope >>> MCMC.jl). >>> >>> Rob J. Goedman >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >
