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Sandia Releases DAKOTA Toolkit under GPL

Posted by Hemos on from the catching-the-bug dept.

Consul writes " DAKOTA, a powerful toolkit for doing engineering analysis, has now been released under the GPL. Space Daily has the details about the tookkit."

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  1. Isn't GPL a step *backward*? by Weasel+Boy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In the past, software written in government labs (e.g., LINPACK) was released into the Public Domain. Isn't using GPL actually granting taxpayers less access to the fruits of their labors than releasing the code into the Public Domain?

  2. Getting Opt++ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Opt++ is a package of nonlinear optimization algorithms that has also been produced by SANDIA

    Opt++ has been realeased under the Lesser GPL and can be obtained at

    http://csmr.ca.sandia.gov/projects/opt++/opt++.h tm l

  3. Re:Addendum to the article post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    In order to make DAKOTA truly free, these libraries will need to be replaced with BSD equivalents.