From: stevenj Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:10:28 +0000 (-0400) Subject: got MIT-license permission from K. Madsen, author of StooGO X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8ac018ad93bb111bbb43daa3a631d4c1695b395c;p=nlopt.git got MIT-license permission from K. Madsen, author of StooGO darcs-hash:20070824131028-c8de0-5431d22d1dc66583f44192b6fac001e5dce42b02.gz --- diff --git a/stogo/COPYRIGHT b/stogo/COPYRIGHT new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dd637e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/stogo/COPYRIGHT @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +The original StoGO code is: + +Copyright (c) 1998 by S. Zertchaninov and K. Madsen. + +Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining +a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the +"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including +without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, +distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to +permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to +the following conditions: + +The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be +included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. + +THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, +EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF +MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND +NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE +LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION +OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION +WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The StoGO source code on the authors' web site has no copyright or +license information, but I (Steven G. Johnson) contacted the author +K. Madsen for clarification and he gave me permission to distribute +it under the MIT license above. See the correspondence below: + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:46:09 +0200 +From: Kaj Madsen +To: stevenj@math.mit.edu +Subject: RE: open source license for StoGO software? + +The MIT licence is ok with me, and so is your copyright suggestion. + +Kaj Madsen. + +-----Original Message----- +From: Steven G. Johnson [mailto:stevenj@fftw.org] +Sent: 23. august 2007 22:23 +To: Kaj Madsen +Subject: RE: open source license for StoGO software? + +On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Kaj Madsen wrote: +> Many thanks for your mail. You can definitely consider the software as +> open source, please use it as you like, however please refer to us if +> you publish results based on the software. +> +> I am now in a heavy administrative position as a Head of Department +> (has been since 1998, therefore I never really followed up on this). +> The paper was never published, however I am attaching two fdf-files, +> one with the paper, one with some descriptions of the code. I hope +> this makes sense, otherwise please don't hesitate to contact me again. + +Thanks so much for your response! + +To be open source it needs some specific open-source license to specify +the permissions in legal terms. The simplest open-source license is +probably the MIT license, is this okay? + + http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php + +Also, I need to know who the authors are for the copyright statement. +Should I list it as: + Copyright (c) 1998 by S. Zertchaninov and K. Madsen ? + +Thanks again! I will definitely cite it if I publish any results based +on StoGO! (It's one of the few public global-optimization programs that +is able to exploit gradient information.) + +Regards, +Steven G. Johnson diff --git a/stogo/README b/stogo/README index 71c6c62..1fe3dff 100644 --- a/stogo/README +++ b/stogo/README @@ -14,8 +14,10 @@ S. Gudmundsson, "Parallel Global Optimization," M.Sc. Thesis, IMM, K. Madsen, S. Zertchaninov, and A. Zilinskas, "Global Optimization using Branch-and-Bound," Submitted to the Journal of Global - Optimization, 1998. [ does not seem to have been published? ] + Optimization, 1998. + [ never published, but preprint is included as paper.pdf ] S. Zertchaninov and K. Madsen, "A C++ Programme for Global Optimization," IMM-REP-1998-04, Department of Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark, 1998. + [ included as techreport.pdf ]