Hi Rob, Please do submit your package to METADATA now that it has a well-defined license. It seems like a really useful tool to have available.
-- John On Apr 6, 2014, at 4:21 PM, Robert J Goedman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi John, > > Jeff has updated his source files with the MIT license and I've pasted those > into the LICENSE file of the Julia package. > > Jason Merrill has also given good feedback that I'm still looking into. My > interpretation of his feedback (a single package covering different hyper > number types and orders) is substantial more work and will definitely take > longer. So maybe we should publish the current version? > > Regards, > Rob J. Goedman > [email protected] > > > > On Apr 6, 2014, at 12:14 PM, Jeffrey Fike <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Rob, >> >> Thanks for your interest. I have been meaning to look into an actual open >> source license. I went with the MIT license. I have updated the code on >> the website to reflect this. Please let me know if you need any additional >> information. >> >> Jeff Fike > > On Mar 29, 2014, at 5:55 PM, John Myles White <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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] > >
