License and Support

License

The project is distributed “has it is” under GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL), which is a strong copyleft license. This means that the code is open-source and you are free to do anything you want with it, as long as you apply the same license to distribute your code. This constraining license is imposed by the use of Platypus Library as “optimization algorithm library”, which is under GPL license.

It is perfectly possible to use other optimization library (which would use the same algorithms but with a different implementation) and to interface it to this project, so that the use of platypus is no longer needed. This work has already been done for NLopt, which is under MIT license (not constraining at all). In that case, after removing all the platypus sources (optiAlgorithms/multiObjective_GA and optiAlgorithsm/platypus/*), the license of the present work becomes less restrictive: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). As for the GPL, this license makes the project open-source and free to be modified, but (nearly) no limitation is made to distribute your code.

Support

Github (preferably) / Send mail at christophe.degreef@uclouvain.be