On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:34 AM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. > > He can certainly incorporate the public domain code and rerelease it > under whatever restrictions he likes, especially if he adds to it, > which appears to be the case. The original sources are legitimately > public domain, not just released under a liberal copyright license. He > can't "remove" the original code from the public domain, but that's > not what he claims to have done. > >> 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. > > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyFFTW
Nice, I am starting to get out of touch with too many packages... Would be nice to add DCT and DST support to it. David _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
