All R code and documentation in this package is licensed under the terms 
of the GPL (2) license -- see COPYING in the top level of the main R 
directory tree for further details.  

All fortran and C code in the SparseM src directory, with the exception of 
iohb.c and cholesky.f is also licensed under the GPL license.  See

	http://www.cs.umn.edu/Research/arpa/SPARSKIT/sparskit.html

for explicit stipulation by the author Yousef Saad for sparskit.f.  

The code in iohb.c is written by K.A. Remington and is distributable under
the terms specified in the comments appearing at the top of the source file.

The code in cholesky.f  is a modified version of code originally written 
by Esmond Ng and Barry Peyton.  The modified version is distributed
as part of PCx by Czyzyk, Mehrotra, Wagner, and Wright and is copywrited 
by the University of Chicago.  The PCx distribution makes the following 
stipulation:


	This software discloses material protectable under copyright 
	laws of the United States. Permission is hereby granted to use, 
	reproduce, prepare derivative works, and redistribute to others 
	at no charge, provided that the original PCx copyright notice, 
	Government license and disclaimer are retained and any changes 
	are clearly documented; however, any entity desiring permission 
	to use this software within a commercial organization or to 
	incorporate this software or a work based on the software into 
	a product for sale must contact Paul Betten at the Industrial 
	Technology Development Center, Argonne National Laboratory.

		PAUL BETTEN
		betten@anl.gov
		Industrial Technology Development Center,
		Argonne National Laboratory,
		Argonne, IL 60439
		(630) 252-4962
		FAX: (630) 252-5230 
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The code in iohb.c and iohb.h to read and write matrices in the
Harwell Boeing  sparse format is governed by the following stipulation.

                       Harwell-Boeing File I/O in C
                                V. 1.0

           National Institute of Standards and Technology, MD.
                             K.A. Remington

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                                NOTICE

 Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and
 its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted
 provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and
 that both the copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
 supporting documentation.

 Neither the Author nor the Institution (National Institute of Standards
 and Technology) make any representations about the suitability of this
 software for any purpose. This software is provided "as is" without
 expressed or implied warranty.
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