Re: Checking GSL for Spectroscopy

[Fritz Sonnichsen]

Thanks Jeremy-
   I looked into this (the GNU doc on this is LONG!) but it is my
understanding that the GNU GPL can be used for commercial purposes. It is
not as clear if the resulting code must be made publically available but
this would not be a problem since our work is closely associated with
academics. Does this sound right to you?
thanks
Fritz

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 2:27 PM Jeremy Theler <jeremy@seamplex.com> wrote:

> Hi Fritz.
> Since you mentioned MATLAB, I'd like to bring licensing issues here.
>
> The GSL is released under the terms on the GPL. Make sure you
> understand what this means.
>
> Regards
> --
> jeremy theler
> www.seamplex.com
>
>
> On Tue, 2021-03-16 at 09:15 -0400, Fritz Sonnichsen wrote:
> > I am preparing to convert MATLAB code to something more general. The new
> > code will run on LInux and ARM processors.
> >    For a lot of reasons I am not going to use Python. We also want to
> > keep this project "close" to scientists and do not want to turn it into a
> > full time computer programming job. So the final word is that I am
> looking
> > for something that can be called by (and hopefully is written) in C.
> Worse
> > case I will just write the code myself but would prefer to start
> > integrating our systems into something with a lot of pre-written and
> vetted
> > routines.
> >
> > GSL looks like a good choice. Maybe R comes next. We have a mix of needs
> > but I will point out a few:
> > 1) Baselining a spectrum
> > 2) Finding peaks in that spectrum
> > 3) using Pearson correlation to compare the spectrum QUICKLY to
> > about 50,000 recorded examples.
> >
> > We also have some uses with basic statistics and we do some image
> > processing.
> >
> > So my question is--does GSL position itself in these areas? MATLAB (with
> > packages) does them all.
> >      I am not sure how active GSL, if it is keeping up with AI, imaging
> and
> > spectroscopy--or is it fading or giving way to popular languages for
> > example. I was surprised that the 600+ page manual did not seem to show
> > anything relating to the simple spectral analysis described above for
> > example. Certainly I can search the web for others' code but at some
> point
> > if I cannot attach to a well established product I will just write it
> > myself.
> >
> > Any comments appreciated
> > thanks
> > Fritz
>
>