Re: Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA) for octave?

[Giorgio Dall'Olmo]

The author of the code posts on his website the link to the asamin 
function, so I guess that he would be ok if there was also an octave 
version of it...


On 08/26/2010 02:33 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> 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.
>
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