From help-request at octave dot org Mon Dec 5 00:33:39 2005 Subject: Non-Uniform Random Variate Generation From: Mike Miller To: Help-Octave List Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 00:25:33 -0600 (CST) FYI-- Luc Devroye's Springer-Verlag book "Non-Uniform Random Variate Generation" is freely available without copyright restrictions here: http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/rnbookindex.html Dr. Devroye wrote to me today as follows: I don't like the GNU license--it is too restrictive. As I say on my page, others can make any copies or modifications of the text, even without telling me, and profit from it. GNU has restrictions, e.g., the cover pages cannot be altered, and about 20 other things---too legalistic and bureaucratic in my view. GNU requires that people mention the original source--I don't insist on that--they can delete my name if they so wish. Let's say that I am to the left of "copyleft". Interestingly, no one has taken up my offer... The PDF file is text-searchable, as it was scanned by an OCR machine. The source was in troff, now obsolete. And the best troff to TEX conversion is still miserable-- I tried that. In any case, I am thinking about a 2-volume update, so it does not matter. I know it's off-topic, but I thought some of you would be interested. Mike ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------