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<h1>Copyright and License<a class="headerlink" href="#copyright-and-license" title="Permalink to this headline">ΒΆ</a></h1>
<p><span class="raw-html">©</span> 2004-2009 J. Dahl and L. Vandenberghe.</p>
<p>CVXOPT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
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<hr><p>The CVXOPT distribution includes the source code of part of the
<a class="reference external" href="http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse">SuiteSparse</a>
collection of sparse matrix algorithms. The copyright and license
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<li><strong>AMD</strong> Version 2.2. Copyright (c) 2007 by Timothy A. Davis,
Patrick R. Amestoy, and Iain S. Duff.</li>
<li><strong>CHOLMOD</strong> Version 1.7.1. Copyright (c) 2005-2009 by the
University of Florida, Timothy A. Davis, and W. Hager.</li>
<li><strong>COLAMD</strong> Version 2.7. Copyright (c) 1998-2007 by Timothy A. Davis.</li>
<li><strong>UMFPACK</strong> Version 5.4.0. Copyright (c) 1994-2009 by Timothy A. Davis.</li>
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<p>UMFPACK and the Supernodal module of CHOLMOD are licensed under the terms
of the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html">GNU General Public License, version 2</a> or higher.
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