This is not really a license per se, but a copy of the e-mail from Ziheng Yang giving us permission to include his source code in the distribution. Questions regarding the license specifics for this module should be addressed to Ziheng at the e-mail address below.
Gavin Huttley 24/06/2003
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Subject: Re: Matrix exp
Date: Wednesday, 28 May 2003 5:48 PM
From: Ziheng Yang <z.yang@ucl.ac.uk>
To: Gavin Huttley <gavin.huttley@anu.edu.au>
Hi Gavin,
You have my permission to use the codes for matrix exponential and eigen
calculation. I won't take any responsibility for any errors in the source
code.
Are you using the code for a symmetrical real matrix (or for a
reversible-process rate matrix) as well?
Best,
Ziheng
At 16:46 28/05/2003 +1000, Gavin Huttley wrote:
>Hi Ziheng:
>
>I'm following up from my previous request for instructions on how to use
>your matrix exponential code. It helped us to solve our problem (which were
>simple coding errors on my part). I'd now like to get your permission to
>distribute the same matrix exponential source-code with our software.
>
>A bit of background on the software. It is basically molecular evolutionary
>modelling software, in the spirit of PAML, PAL and HYPHY. It is being
>developed with the aim of serving as both a development toolkit and
>evolutionary modelling package. We have implemented the software as a module
>to the scripting language Python. The computationally intensive bits are
>written in either C or C++, with a bit of Fortran thrown in (although we aim
>to recode that optimiser in one of the other languages when we get time).
>Aside from the mentioned Fortran code and your and Tiang Wen's eigen code,
>everything has been written from scratch. We intend to release an alpha
>version of the software under the GPL sometime in the next month or so (I'll
>be presenting a poster on it at ISMB in Brisbane next month). At present the
>software has no real name (although it's called EVOLVE in the poster
>abstract).
>
>look forward to hearing from you.
>
>cheers,
>
>gavin