montgome@udel-dewey.ARPA (Kevvy Montgomery) (10/22/86)
thanks to everyone that responded about IMSL being licensed software- not freeware. I was just clueless for a while, but I'm better now...
montgome@udel-dewey.ARPA (Kevvy Montgomery) (11/03/86)
a HUGE thank you to all that posted about the IMSL library routines not being public domain and therefore unobtainable without a license from IMSL Inc!!!
wunder@hpcea.HP.COM (Walter Underwood) (11/05/86)
> a HUGE thank you to all that posted about the IMSL library routines > not being public domain and therefore unobtainable without a license > from IMSL Inc!!! But they were all wrong! Many of IMSL's routines, particularly LINPACK and EISPACK, were developed with your tax dollars and are avaliable for free, via e-mail. Send mail to netlib@anl-mcs.ARPA (Argonne National Labs) with the message "send index", and you'll find out how to get your very own copy of lots and lots of FORTRAN. You pay IMSL for library services, not code. Walter Underwood wunder@hplabs
$VK0%CLVM.BitNet@violet.berkeley.edu (Valdis Kletnieks) (11/06/86)
Sorry to flame, you, but you missed slightly concerning IMSL's
services. It is true that they provide versions of many other routine
libraries (such as EISPACK, the ACM algorithm tape, etc) for a small
fee.
The point is that the *MAIN* product of IMSL, Inc. is in fact the
International Mathematical and Statistical Library, and this is usually
referred to as IMSL. This product is most certainly NOT available
without a license from IMSL, Inc. We were even hassled about porting it
from a machine we had a license for to another machine of ours that they
didn't even support at the time.
Valdis Kletnieks
Systems Programmer
Clarkson University