Rmalschains is Copyright (c) DiCITS Lab, Sci2s group, DECSAI, University of Granada. Rmalschains is an adapted version of the library librealea. Its source code can be found here: https://bitbucket.org/dmolina/librealea librealea is Copyright (c) 2008 Daniel Molina Cabrera (who is part of the DiCITS Lab and the Sci2s group) Rmalschains and librealea are licensed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3. You can get a copy from here: http://www.r-project.org/Licenses/GPL-3 ------------------------------- The file RmalschainsEvaluate.h is a slightly adapted version of the file "evaluate.h", taken from RcppDE, version 0.1.0, which is GPL >= 2: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RcppDE/index.html ------------------------------- librealea uses the matrix library newmat, which ships partly with Rmalschains (see comments in the source files, which files are part of librealea, and which are part of newmat). newmat is (c) Robert Davies and can be found here: http://www.robertnz.net/nm_intro.htm It is licensed under the following license: I place no restrictions on the use of newmat except that I take no liability for any problems that may arise from its use, distribution or other dealings with it. You can use it in your commercial projects. You can make and distribute modified or merged versions. You can include parts of it in your own software. If you distribute modified or merged versions, please make it clear which parts are mine and which parts are modified. For a substantially modified version, simply note that it is, in part, derived from my software. A comment in the code will be sufficient. The software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind. Please understand that there may still be bugs and errors. Use at your own risk. I (Robert Davies) take no responsibility for any errors or omissions in this package or for any misfortune that may befall you or others as a result of your use, distribution or other dealings with it. --------------------------------- Furthermore, librealea uses the original cmaes implementation of Nikolaus Hansen, in the files origcmaes.h and origcmaes.cc, which is GPL-3. The license text is the following: CMA-ES for non-linear function minimization. Copyright 1996, 2003, 2007 Nikolaus Hansen e-mail: hansen .AT. bionik.tu-berlin.de hansen .AT. lri.fr This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3, as published by the Free Software Foundation. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see .