Re: copyright

[Ron Boisvert <boisvert@nist.gov>]

Yes, you are correct. Being "in the public domain" means that the authors
have relinquished all rights to the software. You are free to do with JAMA
what you like, including putting it into a commercial product.

The authors would appreciate a small acknowledgment somewhere, though.

Best wishes,

Ron

Dr. Ronald F. Boisvert
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Leon Fairbanks wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The webpage http://math.nist.gov/javanumerics/jama/ states that Jama 
> code “has been released to the public domain”. I would like to confirm 
> that it is OK to use this code in a commercial product without a 
> license. Thanks.
>
> Leon Fairbanks
>