OpenOpt
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Free optimization framework OpenOpt (created in June 2007) is a relatively new project that is currently developed by optimization department of cybernetics institute (Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences) in collaboration with SciPy developers team. Connects to lots of solvers, some are C- or Fortran-written. The solvers can have any type of license -- primarily opensource and OSI-approved ones such as GPL, LGPL, and BSD. This differs from SciPy's own optimize package, which allows only OSI-approved without copyleft statements such as the BSD and MIT licenses. OpenOpt itself is licensed under the BSD license.
Although originally developed in MATLAB, OpenOpt is now developed in Python and has a single dependence: NumPy (an array package on Python). This allows OpenOpt to be easy to install and OS-independent. OpenOpt was a sponsored project in Google's 2007 Summer of Code and recently obtained Google's 2008 Summer of Code financial support for further development.
