Sandia Releases DAKOTA Toolkit under GPL

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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[Consul]

As the submitter of this article, I'm afraid I missed a couple of important things.

First, here's a link to the site for the software itself: DAKOTA

And second, as seen on this page, there are two libraries (DOT and NPSOL) required by DAKOTA that are expensive commercial software products. So, in order to make DAKOTA truly free, these libraries will need to be replaced with GPL/LGPL equivilants. I just wish I had the programming skill to help with something of this scale.

There is a third library needed, called OPT++, that is not GPL or an Artistic license. I'm unable to determine what this library is or its terms of use, as the page that the DAKOTA web site links to is no good.

All of the other libraries needed by DAKOTA are GPL/LGPL, with one using an Artistic license.