Re: Confirmation on JAMA public domain

[Ron Boisvert <boisvert@nist.gov>]

Dear Ms. Nelson,

You are correct.  Our team, made up of staff from The MatheWorks and NIST did indeed write the
code, and have released it to the public domain as outlined in our "Copyright Notice" that
you reproduced below.  No other parties have any claim of ownership on this code.

Best wishes,

Dr. Ronald F. Boisvert
Chief, Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division
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At 08:18 AM 11/13/2003 -0500, Stacy Nelson wrote:

>Dear Dr. Boisvert and Dr. Miller... 
>
>I am contacting you because you are listed as authors of JAMA, the basic linear algebra package for Java (http://math.nist.gov/javanumerics/jama/).  My team is interested incorporating this code into some of our work. I would like to confirm with you that you did write the code and it is intended it to be dedicated to the public with no copyrights retained by you or anyone else (to the best of your knowledge).
>
>Copyright Notice This software is a cooperative product of The MathWorks and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) which has been released to the public domain. Neither The MathWorks nor NIST assumes any responsibility whatsoever for its use by other parties, and makes no guarantees, expressed or implied, about its quality, reliability, or any other characteristic. 
>
>Thank you and please feel free to call me if you have any questions. 
>
>....Stacy
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>Stacy Nelson
>Mgr, Autonomic Technologies Development
>IBM - Tivoli Software
>swnelson@us.ibm.com
>phone: 919.224.2219     fax: 919.224.2550