On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Those are not the original Fortran sources. The original Fortran sources are >> in the public domain as work done by a US federal employee. >> >> http://www.netlib.org/fftpack/ >> >> Never trust the license of any code on John Burkardt's site. Track it down >> to the original sources. > > Taken together, what those websites seem to be claiming is that you > have a choice of buggy BSD code or fixed GPL code? I assume someone > has already taken the appropriate measures for numpy, but it seems > like an unfortunate situation...
If the code on John Burkardt website is based on the netlib codebase, he is not entitled to make it GPL unless he is the sole copyright holder of the original code. I think the 'real' solution is to have a separate package linking to FFTW for people with 'advanced' needs for FFT. None of the other library I have looked at so far are usable, fast and precise enough when you go far from the simple case of double precision and 'well factored' size. regards, David _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
