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MADlib is released with a BSD style license:

Portions of this software Copyright (c) 2010-2012 by EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

Portions of this software Copyright (c) 2010-2012 by Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

  • Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

  • Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.


Additionally MADlib makes use of additional third party software, licensed as follows:

Third Party Licenses

Library / Software Licence Link Used in: MADlib Version
Armadillo, C++ linear algebra library LGPLv3 http://arma.sourceforge.net/ C++ Abstraction Layer, other C++ code v0.2, removed in v0.3
Boost Boost Software License v1 http://www.boost.org/ C++ Abstraction Layer, other C++ code v0.2 and higher
Doxypy.py GPLv2 http://code.foosel.org/doxypy doxypy.py (Doxygen filter for python files) v0.2 and higher
Eigen GPLv2 http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php C++ Abstraction Layer, other C++ code v0.3 and higher
CERN ROOT LGPL http://root.cern.ch/drupal/ Evaluating the Kolmogorov cumulative distribution function v0.4 and higher
LAPACK Modified BSD http://www.netlib.org/lapack/ Implicitly (Armadillo) v0.2, removed in v0.3
Python module: PyGreSQL Copyright Notice http://www.pygresql.org madpack.py v0.2 and higher
Python module: argparse Python License http://code.google.com/p/argparse/ madpack.py v0.2 and higher
Python module: PyYAML MIT License http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAML madpack.py v0.2 and higher