Sandia Releases DAKOTA Toolkit under GPL

Consul writes " DAKOTA, a powerful toolkit for doing engineering analysis, has now been released under the GPL. Space Daily has the details about the tookkit."

Isn't GPL a step *backward*?

[Weasel Boy]

In the past, software written in government labs (e.g., LINPACK) was released into the Public Domain. Isn't using GPL actually granting taxpayers less access to the fruits of their labors than releasing the code into the Public Domain?

Getting Opt++

[Anonymous Coward]

Opt++ is a package of nonlinear optimization algorithms that has also been produced by SANDIA

Opt++ has been realeased under the Lesser GPL and can be obtained at

http://csmr.ca.sandia.gov/projects/opt++/opt++.h tm l

Re:Addendum to the article post

[Anonymous Coward]

In order to make DAKOTA truly free, these libraries will need to be replaced with BSD equivalents.