What is the policy on “stolen” code (such as that taken from Numerical Recipes)?
A. Clearly taking obvious copyrighted code is a BAD thing, especially when it has been made clear that such use is not permitted. However, I think NRC has actually relaxed their polices a bit recently. In most cases equivalent publicly available code can be found. We have already adopted GSL (Gnu Scientific Library), Opt++ and FFTW as dependencies. So routines from any of those toolkits can be used freely. If there are other toolkits you find you need, you need to talk to me before adding new dependencies to EMAN2 as a whole. More dependencies are generally a bad thing.
