Thanks all for your help on this. Cheers, Alexandre
On 12 Nov 2010, at 09:08, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > Alexandre, > > A possible source of a Levenberg-Marquardt optimizer: > > http://www.ics.forth.gr/~lourakis/levmar/ > > It's GPL too, so aside from _possibly_ being cleaner than GSL's > implementation (there's room for improvement), it's no help. It appears that > they translated the code from Minpack, and perhaps the ultimate answer is to > do that "one last time" under MIT. > > Another thing I find interesting is their answer to FAQ 32. Therein find > "However, it is possible to obtain a paid license for proprietary commercial > use under terms different than those of GPL." Am I wrong, or can that be > translated as "Pay us and you can use the code as you wish." So much for > true freedom. I'm still suspicious that it is not helpful to someone wanting > to release MIT wrappers of GPL code, because they are dual-licensing their > code, not a wrapper. > > If nothing else, the FAQ looks interesting on topics such as computing and > checking the Jacobian. > > Bill > > > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] > [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alexandre Bergel > [[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 3:14 PM > To: Pharo Development > Subject: [Pharo-project] Pharo and Astronomy? > > Hi! > > I am looking for any experience in using Pharo to develop software for > Astronomy. Especially regarding interoperability with Python, using > Mathematical libraries (www.nr.com, www.gnu.org/software/gsl, > matplotlib.sourceforge.net/gallery.html) > > Cheers, > Alexandre > -- > _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: > Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu > ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. > > > > > > > -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.
