On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 01:25:12PM -0800, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>  I've written a fairly complete wrapper for CHOLMOD (the SuiteSparse
>  library for sparse Cholesky decomposition) in Cython for my own use,
>  and it occurs that others might benefit as well.

Very very nice.

>  CHOLMOD is GPLed, so I suppose my wrapper must be as well, and is thus
>  unsuitable for inclusion in Scipy proper -- though scipy.sparse
>  already has a wrapper for the GPLed UMFPACK, so I guess I might be
>  wrong?

I would put the code in BSD, just to make it clear that people are
welcomed to derive work for the code in BSD license, but I would make it
clear that the package itself is contaminated.

>  Anyway, is there any interest in such a thing, and any thoughts
>  on the best way to distribute it?

Scikit umfpack seems a good idea. Worst case, stick it on a webpage: this
is useful code.

Thanks for offering :)

Gaël
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