Re: Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA) for octave?

[John W. Eaton]

On 26-Aug-2010, Søren Hauberg wrote:

| tor, 26 08 2010 kl. 12:10 +0100, skrev Giorgio Dall'Olmo:
| > I was wondering if anyone has ever though of compiling the Adaptive 
| > Simulated Annealing routine (http://www.ingber.com/#ASA) so that it can 
| > be used from octave.
| 
| Well, the license seems to be incompatible with the GPL, so I doubt
| anybody will do this.

Among other conflicts with the GPL, there is the following statement:

  In general, I have retained all rights such as copyrights to these
  codes and files, but they may be freely used by any person or group
  independent of affiliations, e.g., independent of academic or
  commercial affiliation.

Huh?  Is there anyone who is allowed to freely use this code?  How many
of us are actually independent of academic or commercial affiliation?
Or am I completely misunderstanding the intent here?

jwe