Copyright for Colt

The Ptolemy II Colt actors use the Colt library from http://hoschek.home.cern.ch/hoschek/colt/ to generate random numbers. These actors were written by David Bauer, Kostas Oikonomou, and Edward A. Lee.

Colt is an "Open Source Libraries for High Performance Scientific and Technical Computing in Java"

We ship a subset of Colt classes we need in $PTII/lib/ptcolt.jar.

The portion of Colt that we ship has the following licenses:

packages cern.colt* , cern.jet*, cern.clhep

Written by Wolfgang Hoschek. Check the Colt home page for more info.
Copyright (c) 1999 CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. CERN makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without expressed or implied warranty.

Colt 1.0.3 used a version of RngPack that used the GNU Public License (GPL)
We updated to RngPack 1.1a, which "fixes a number of serious bugs in RngPack 1.0 including an incorrect coefficient in the Ranecu implementation and fixes an off-by-one error in the choice() method."
In addition, RngPack 1.1a is release under the BSD License:
packages edu.cornell.lassp.houle.RngPack

Copyright (c) 2003 by Paul Houle Portions copyright (c) 1993 by Michael Lecuyer and copyright (c) 2003 by Sean Luke

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