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diff --git a/libm/README b/libm/README index 023e46846..c275d1b9a 100644 --- a/libm/README +++ b/libm/README @@ -1,42 +1,16 @@ -The actual routines included in this math library are derived almost -exclusively from the Cephes Mathematical Library, which "is copyrighted by the -author [and] may be used freely but ... comes with no support or guarantee" +The routines included in this math library are derived from the +math library for Apple's MacOS X/Darwin math library, which was +itself swiped from FreeBSD. The original copyright information +is as follows: -It has been ported to fit into uClibc and generally behave -by Erik Andersen <andersen@lineo.com>, <andersee@debian.org> - 5 May, 2001 + Copyright (C) 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. --------------------------------------------------- + Developed at SunPro, a Sun Microsystems, Inc. business. + Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this + software is freely granted, provided that this notice + is preserved. - Some software in this archive may be from the book _Methods and -Programs for Mathematical Functions_ (Prentice-Hall, 1989) or -from the Cephes Mathematical Library, a commercial product. In -either event, it is copyrighted by the author. What you see here -may be used freely but it comes with no support or guarantee. +It has been ported to work with uClibc and generally behave +by Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> + 22 May, 2001 - The two known misprints in the book are repaired here in the -source listings for the gamma function and the incomplete beta -integral. - - - Stephen L. Moshier - moshier@world.std.com - --------------------------------------------------- - -19 November 1992 - -ZIP archive constructed and index compiled. - -To reconstruct the original directory structure, use the -d switch: - - C:\CEPHES>pkunzip -d cephes - -This archive includes all the programs in the /netlib/cephes directory -on research.att.com as of 17 Nov 92. The file "index" will tell you in -what directory and file each function can be found. If there is -something else mentioned in cephes.doc that you need, you can check -research.att.com to see whether it has been added. Failing that, you -can contact Stephen Moshier. - - Jim Van Zandt <jrv@mbunix.mitre.org> |