These routines for nonlinear optimization are based on the Fortran 77 code placed online by Professor Ladislav Luksan at his web site: http://www.uivt.cas.cz/~luksan/subroutines.html and graciously licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). See also the COPYRIGHT file for details. The C conversions were done via f2c by S. G. Johnson, with the f2c output manually cleaned up somewhat, and then converted to use the NLopt termination conditions, C dynamic allocation, etc. In particular, we converted the subroutines PLIS, PLIP, and PNET (as well as various auxiliary routines required by this code), all of which solve general nonlinear unconstrained or box-constrained optimization problems. Prof. Luksan also provides a large number of more specialized routines for cases where one has additional knowledge of the objective function, but these cases seem outside the scope of NLopt. [We also did not convert the PMIN, PBUN, PNEW, or PVAR subroutines since these were published in ACM Trans. on Math. Software (TOMS) and are subject to the non-free ACM licensing conditions.]