License

Nengolib inherits the license of Nengo, which is “made available under a proprietary license that permits using, copying, sharing, and making derivative works from Nengo and its source code for any non-commercial purpose”. This applies with exception to Applied Brain Research, Inc., who is granted a license to use nengolib for their own commercial purposes.

In addition to the code licensed by Nengo, nengolib imports the open source library SciPy under the BSD license.

The file nengolib/stats/_sobol_seq.py contains code with the following license:

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 John Burkardt

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Thanks

Nengolib is an open-source library of routines created in an effort to exploit Nengo’s full potential. It was started by Aaron Voelker from the University of Waterloo as a collection of tools made available through work on his PhD dissertation.

We acknowledge the following people and institutions for their support during the development of this code (in alphabetical order):

People

  • Chris Eliasmith for his supervision, guidance, feedback, and testing.
  • Eric Hunsberger for his guidance in the areas of signal processing and linear systems theory.
  • Michael Hopkins for providing background information on number-theoretic methods for obtaining more scattered samples.
  • Terrence C. Stewart for helping develop the ideas behind reservoir computing in Nengo by solving for the decoders over time.

Institutions

  • Applied Brain Research (ABR), Inc., for this library could not exist in any meaningful state without Nengo.
  • The Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience and the University of Waterloo for their academic support during the development of this library.

Disclaimer

Nengolib is not officially supported by, or endorsed by, the authors of Nengo (Applied Brain Research, Inc.). Please contact ABR if you have any inquiries about Nengo, such as to purchase licenses for commercial usage.