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]
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 

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