good question, the Matlab version is now also released in the public 
domain. The code is in any case also given in Wikipedia. 

-- Niko

On Wednesday, 4 September 2013 17:07:13 UTC+2, John Myles White wrote:
>
> If someone feels up to it, it would be great to ask the author why the 
> Python version is public domain and the Matlab version is GPL.
>
>  -- John
>
> On Sep 4, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Isaiah Norton <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
> Maybe this is less useful, but the basic/demo version (by the author 
> himself) is public domain:
> https://www.lri.fr/~hansen/barecmaes2.py
>
> And the Apache commons Java version claims to be Apache licensed, though 
> it is explicitly derived from the GPL matlab code.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Billou Bielour 
> <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> Actually I missed it, but it's under GNU General Public License.
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, September 4, 2013 8:43:19 AM UTC-5, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
>>>
>>> No explicit license is the same as all rights reserved, so that's not 
>>> ok, regardless of the existence of other implementations. If this 
>>> implementation is not based on other ones, then it is ok, or if it's based 
>>> on another implementation that has an MIT or BSD license, then that might 
>>> also be ok (although if that license was not legally applied in the first 
>>> place, then it's not ok for us either). License stuff is annoying and 
>>> nasty, but we have to be careful.
>>>
>>
>
>

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