Dear R-programmers,

I would like to use one of the AS Algorithms that used to be published in
the journal Applied Statistics of the Royal Statistical Society (Series C).
FORTRAN code based on these are available on the Statlib website at

http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/modules.php?op=modload&name=PostWrap&file=index&page=apstat/

with the disclaimer,

*"The Royal Statistical Society holds the copyright to these routines, but
has given its permission for their distribution provided that no fee is
charged."*
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*Does this make these programs compatible with an open source license like
GPL-2 ? More specifically, can one safely include them in an R package?*
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*BTW I am looking at AS 133 : Finding the global maximum or minimum of a
function of 1 variable.
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Regards,
Mohit Dayal
Researcher
Applied Statistics & Computing Lab
ISB

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