Licensing Issues for GAlib
12 December 1999

The GAlib source code is not in the public domain, but it is available at no cost. As a work developed by Matthew Wall using MIT resources and MIT funding, the original GAlib source code copyright is owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Later portions were added by Matthew Wall without MIT funding. All rights are reserved. As of 1 January 2000, the software is available for use under the terms of the BSD-style license below.

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The GNU portions of the GAlib distribution

The portions of GAlib (see below) that contain code from the GNU g++ library are covered under the terms of the GNU Public License. As such they are freely available and do not fall under the terms of the GAlib licensing conditions above.

The portions of GAlib that are based upon GNU code are all in the 'gnu' directory in the examples directory (in GAlib release 2.3.2 and later).