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The official SuiteSparse library: a suite of sparse matrix algorithms authored or co-authored by Tim Davis, Texas A&M University.

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2020-05-23 · latest 2022-10-20

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  1. …happened and discussed in the submitted article. For reference the code reproduced (literally) is: https://github.com/DrTimothyAldenDavis/SuiteSparse/blob/dev2... .
  2. https://github.com/DrTimothyAldenDavis/SuiteSparse/blob/mast... it's lgpl or gpl, which is the point of the complaint. GitHub does a ton of work to formalize license management, it's odd that copilot ignored all of that.
  3. …means "closed/strict licensing which doesn't provide freedoms". The code is actually licensed: https://github.com/DrTimothyAldenDavis/SuiteSparse/blob/mast...
  4. It is also allowed to be used under LGPL terms: https://github.com/DrTimothyAldenDavis/SuiteSparse/blob/mast... But that doesn't make it any better.
  5. There are some examples in in the SuiteSparse implementation, https://github.com/DrTimothyAldenDavis/SuiteSparse/tree/mast...