MPFIT-LICENSE.txt

MPFIT: A MINPACK-1 Least Squares Fitting Library in C

Original public domain version by B. Garbow, K. Hillstrom, J. More'
  (Argonne National Laboratory, MINPACK project, March 1980)
  Copyright (1999) University of Chicago
    (see below)

Translation to C Language by S. Moshier (moshier.net)
  (no restrictions placed on distribution)

Enhancements and packaging by C. Markwardt (2003)
  (including port to the IDL fitting routine MPFIT,
   see http://cow.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/fitting.html)
  Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013 Craig B. Markwardt

  This software is provided as is without any warranty whatsoever.
  Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute modified or
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Initial port to Python from IDL by Mark Rivers (2002)
  Mark Rivers, University of Chicago

Update from Python's Numeric package to Numpy by Sergey Koposov (2009 - 2016)
  Sergey Koposov, University of Cambridge, Institute of Astronomy
  Updated versions can be found at:
      https://github.com/segasai/astrolibpy

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