sparseHessianFD: A contributed package for the R programming language.

sparseHessianFD is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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License and copyright details:

1.  This package is available under the terms of the ACM license.
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2.  Files src/DSSM-FDHS.c and inst/misc/DSSM-FDHS.f are copyrighted and licensed by ACM.
    See details of this license below.

    The Fortran code was published originally as:

    Coleman, Thomas F., Burton S. Garbow and Jorge J. More. (1985).
    Algorithm 636:  FORTRAN Subroutines for Estimating Sparse Hessian Matrices
    ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, 11(4), p. 378

    This code was modified in the following way:
    a.  In the Fortran code, REAL types were replaced with DOUBLE PRECISION.
    b.  The Fortran code was translated to C using the f2c utility.
 

3.  The copyright for all other files is held by Michael Braun. These files may also be
    used under the terms of the Mozilla Public License v. 2.0.  You can obtain a
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    The modified work is available free to secondary users for non-commercial use.
    No charge is associated with such copies. 
  
5.  The package maintainer grants CRAN the non-exclusive right to distribute
    this package in perpetuity.




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