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| :raw-html:`&copy;` 2004-2009 J. Dahl and L. Vandenberghe. 

CVXOPT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under 
the terms of the 
`GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html>`_
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the 
License, or (at your option) any later version.

CVXOPT is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  
See the
`GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html>`_
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The CVXOPT distribution includes the source code of part of the 
`SuiteSparse <http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse>`_
collection of sparse matrix algorithms.  The copyright and license 
information for the included libraries is as follows.

* **AMD** Version 2.2.  Copyright (c) 2007 by Timothy A.  Davis, 
  Patrick R.  Amestoy, and Iain S. Duff.  

* **CHOLMOD** Version 1.7.1.  Copyright (c) 2005-2009 by the
  University of Florida, Timothy A. Davis, and W. Hager.

* **COLAMD** Version 2.7.  Copyright (c) 1998-2007 by Timothy A. Davis.

* **UMFPACK** Version 5.4.0.  Copyright (c) 1994-2009 by Timothy A. Davis.

UMFPACK and the Supernodal module of CHOLMOD are licensed under the terms 
of the `GNU General Public License, version 2 
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html>`_ or higher.
The other CHOLMOD modules, AMD, and COLAMD are licensed under the terms of 
the `GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html>`_ or higher.
For more details, consult the README files in the source directories or 
the documentation at 
`www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse <http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse>`_.

