[mlpack-git] master: Change to BSD license from LGPL. (3f96f5b)

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Repository : https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack

On branch  : master
Link       : https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/compare/89e0ddc4f1e6cae89d5715501b26084d0cb22135...f09b64a82dac36c265adf4584b4c832be8223a1d

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commit 3f96f5b7361393b3d55b0fc453db414216f37234
Author: Ryan Curtin <ryan at ratml.org>
Date:   Wed Jan 7 10:51:09 2015 -0500

    Change to BSD license from LGPL.
    
    I heard back from all contributors and they all agreed with a switch to BSD.


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3f96f5b7361393b3d55b0fc453db414216f37234
 LICENSE.txt | 201 +++++++++---------------------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 171 deletions(-)

diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt
index 44d7606..f598996 100644
--- a/LICENSE.txt
+++ b/LICENSE.txt
@@ -1,173 +1,32 @@
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