Re: Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA) for octave?

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 26 August 2010 08:27, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 26-Aug-2010, Søren Hauberg wrote:
>
> | tor, 26 08 2010 kl. 12:10 +0100, skrev Giorgio Dall'Olmo:
> | > I was wondering if anyone has ever though of compiling the Adaptive
> | > Simulated Annealing routine (http://www.ingber.com/#ASA) so that it can
> | > be used from octave.
> |
> | Well, the license seems to be incompatible with the GPL, so I doubt
> | anybody will do this.
>
> Among other conflicts with the GPL, there is the following statement:
>
>  In general, I have retained all rights such as copyrights to these
>  codes and files, but they may be freely used by any person or group
>  independent of affiliations, e.g., independent of academic or
>  commercial affiliation.
>
> Huh?  Is there anyone who is allowed to freely use this code?  How many
> of us are actually independent of academic or commercial affiliation?
> Or am I completely misunderstanding the intent here?

Sounds like contradictory informations about these codes.

It seems like very old work, though. Perhaps the author has lost
interest in it and would be amenable to a relicensing or
clarification? Although using names like "Lester Ingher Research"
smacks of Wolframism, so that may not happen.