HI John,

Done, should be available, thanks to Jiahao!

Rob J. Goedman
[email protected]




On Apr 8, 2014, at 8:03 AM, John Myles White <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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]
>> 
>> 
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