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2Versions of SparseM prior to 0.95 included a LICENSE file that described
3some uncertainties over the licensing status of the fortran
4code in src/cholesky.f. As of 9 March 2012, original authors of cholesky.f,
5Esmond Ng and Barry Peyton, have now, very kindly, given permission to
6use cholesky.f under an open source license. They have requested that
7their code be credited via the following two publications:
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9 Esmond G. Ng and Barry W. Peyton, "Block sparse Cholesky algorithms
10 on advanced uniprocessor computers". SIAM J. Sci. Stat. Comput.
11 14 (1993), pp. 1034-1056.
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13 John R. Gilbert, Esmond G. Ng, and Barry W. Peyton, "An efficient
14 algorithm to compute row and column counts for sparse Cholesky
15 factorization". SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl. 15 (1994), pp. 1075-1091.
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