CLAPACK and BLAS
The Netlib Web site states the following in their FAQ:
1.2) Are there legal restrictions on the use of LAPACK software?
LAPACK is a freely-available software package. It is available from netlib via anonymous ftp and the World Wide Web. Thus, it can be included in commercial software packages (and has been). We only ask that proper credit be given to the authors.
Like all software, it is copyrighted. It is not trademarked, but we do ask the following:
If you modify the source for these routines we ask that you change the name of the routine and comment the changes made to the original.
We will gladly answer any questions regarding the software. If a modification is done, however, it is the responsibility of the person who modified the routine to provide support.
The following notice appears at the top of each source file:
/* -- LAPACK driver routine (version 3.0) --
Univ. of Tennessee, Univ. of California Berkeley, NAG Ltd.,
Courant Institute, Argonne National Lab, and Rice University
June 30, 1999
No equivalent statements about the BLAS software could be found on the Netlib Web site, and the source code lacks any copyright information. For general information about the software, please see: http://www.netlib.org/blas/index.html.
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