This package was debianized by Philipp Frauenfelder on Sat, 24 Apr 1999 09:42:50 +0200 The current Debian maintainer is Muammar El Khatib It was downloaded from: http://www.netlib.org/blacs/ Susan Blackford : Yes, the "legal use" of the BLACS is exactly the same as for ScaLAPACK. Freely-available software. Public domain or copyright notice, quoting from: http://www.netlib.org/scalapack/faq.html 1.2) How do I reference ScaLAPACK in a scientific publication? We ask that you cite the ScaLAPACK Users' Guide. @BOOK{slug, AUTHOR = {Blackford, L. S. and Choi, J. and Cleary, A. and D'Azevedo, E. and Demmel, J. and Dhillon, I. and Dongarra, J. and Hammarling, S. and Henry, G. and Petitet, A. and Stanley, K. and Walker, D. and Whaley, R. C.}, TITLE = {{ScaLAPACK} Users' Guide}, PUBLISHER = {Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics}, YEAR = {1997}, ADDRESS = {Philadelphia, PA}, ISBN = {0-89871-397-8 (paperback)} } 1.4) Are there legal restrictions on the use of ScaLAPACK software? ScaLAPACK (like LINPACK, EISPACK, LAPACK, etc) is a freely-available software package. It is available from netlib via anonymous ftp and the World Wide Web. It can, and is, being included in commercial packages (e.g., IBM's Parallel ESSL, NAG Numerical PVM and MPI Library). We only ask that proper credit be given to the authors. Like all software, it is copyrighted. It is not trademarked, but we do ask the following: If you modify the source for these routines we ask that you change the name of the routine and comment the changes made to the original. We will gladly answer any questions regarding the software. If a modification is done, however, it is the responsibility of the person who modified the routine to provide support. 1.5) Are there legal restrictions on the use of ScaLAPACK software? ScaLAPACK (like LINPACK, EISPACK, LAPACK, etc) is a freely-available software package. It is available from netlib via anonymous ftp and the World Wide Web. It can, and is, being included in commercial packages (e.g., Sun's S3L, IBM's Parallel ESSL, NAG Numerical PVM and Interactive Supercomputing's Star-P for MATLAB). We only ask that proper credit be given to the authors. Like all software, it is copyrighted. It is not trademarked, but we do ask the following: If you modify the source for these routines we ask that you change the name of the routine and comment the changes made to the original. We will gladly answer any questions regarding the software. If a modification is done, however, it is the responsibility of the person who modified the routine to provide support.