Posted by
Bianchetti Marco on
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/optimizers-tp9481p9482.html
Thank you Sergey for the licensing of BFGS algo.
We put this task in our todo list (low priority indeeed), is it of
interest for you ?
I mean, just plugging BFGS into Quantlib, insipirated by the present
framework for optimizers (Simplex or Levenberg-Marquardt, for instance).
Let us know.
Regards
Marco
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> Hello!
>
> BFGS stands for "Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno". It is
> algorithm name,
> not license name.
>
> Original FORTRAN implementation of the L-BFGS algorithm was "freely
> available for educational or commercial purposes". As far as
> I can see it is
> compatible with BSD. I am not a lawyer but common sense tells me it is
> compatible.
>
> I've put some restrictions on the use of the translated code
> (which were
> discussed above), but if you wish, you can use it under BSD
> (QuantLib uses
> BSD, isn't it?). You have a nice project and I would be glag
> to help you.
>
>
> Ferdinando Ametrano wrote:
> >
> > Hi Sergey,
> >
> > I'm not familiar with BFGS (and/or L-BFGS) and I can't find it in my
> > personal authoritative reference:
> >
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html> >
> > It would be very nice to have ALGLIB not only open source, but also
> > free software as in
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html> >
> > In any case I can't see QuantLib depending on any software which is
> > not free and/or not compatible with the GNU GPL
> >
> > ciao -- Nando
> >
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