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
> 
> 
> 
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> [[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
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