Re: [boost] [GSoC 2010] Sweepline algorithm

Subject: Re: [boost] [GSoC 2010] Sweepline algorithm
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-27 09:50:03

DE wrote:
> on 27.03.2010 at 14:48
>  Lars Viklund wrote :
>> The code from the Numerical Recepies in X books is licensed under a
>> bunch of licenses, all that are completely unusable for Boost (or in my
>> opinion, anyone).
> 
>> Basically, the only license they have that doesn't cost you money is the
>> "immediate license" in which you have to type the code in onto your
>> personal computer, and may not redistribute the code or binaries using
>> the code, nor use it for commercial purposes.
> 
>> Heck, I'd guess that being inspired by the code would probably count as
>> a derived work and be useless as well.
> 
>> (this is all according to my Numerical Recepies in C 2e)
> i were talking about algorithms, not the code
> 
> algorithms are not licensed

But in some countries they are patented..

> even if so there are references in the book where you always can
> find an algorithm free of charge (or just paying for the book)

..Which makes the unusable regardless of the reference source. But I 
don't know the particular algorithm in question so perhaps it's not a 
problem :-)

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