I just wrote the PHCpack author to ask about the licensing issue. About the Ada sources, I don't really see the problem vs Fortran sources - I mean, they both need to be compiled, and gcc has Ada support. It compiles just fine on my system (Debian Wheezy)
On Friday, June 6, 2014 12:43:25 PM UTC+2, Hans W Borchers wrote: > > I would certainly be interested to apply it to systems of polynomials in > design and engineering, but I will not be in a position to support you in > developing such a package. > > Please notice that PHCpack is distributed under GPL license, so your first > step should be to contact the author and ask for his approval to > distribute > it under a lesser license such as MIT. > > Then think about it: what are you going to do with the ADA sources? > > May I propose to you to look at HOMPACK <http://www.netlib.org/hompack/> > or > HOMPACK90. HOMPACK is a suite of FORTRAN 77 subroutines for solving > nonlinear > systems of equations by homotopy methods (trying to find all the roots). > > This is available in Netlib, and since it is written in Fortran, it should > be relatively easily interfaceable with Julia -- though it might be under > AMS > license which is even stricter than GPL. > > > On Thursday, June 5, 2014 8:01:12 PM UTC+2, Andrei Berceanu wrote: >> >> OK, so that makes two of us so far. Hans, are you also in? >> I think we might also get support from the PHCpack creator. >> Perhaps a good place to start would be to contact the NLsolve developers ( >> https://github.com/EconForge/NLsolve.jl), because they mention Homotopy >> Methods on their TODO list, what do you guys reckon? >> >
