Publish Nlopt wrappers of old revrand project as separate package

[dschmitz89]

Hey guys,

searching for nlopt Python tutorials I found this wrapper which at some time belonged to the revrand project apparently:
https://www.earthbyte.org/webdav/ftp/Data_Collections/Dutkiewicz_etal_2016_G3/revrand-master/revrand/optimize/nlopt_wrap.py

In a nutshell, the wrapper enables to call nlopt algorithms with the scipy.optimize.minimize API that has become the de facto standard in Python. It makes it a lot easier for everyone familiar with this API to use nlopt.

I find that code very useful and would like to make it more accessible by a dedicated repo/package and a few minor extensions. As I am not that familiar with licensing, I wanted to ask you what the process would have to be. The code seems to be Apache licensed, so in my understanding it should be possible given the reference to the authors.

I hope this is the right place to ask!

[dsteinberg]

Hi @dschmitz89 !

I'm really glad you found this wrapper useful! If memory serves, it was mainly the effort of @ltiao .

Yeah it looks like the version of revrand in that link is still Apache 2.0 - so I don't think it would be an issue with the copyright owners (CSIRO now).

I think as long as you follow the terms of the license what you propose is fine :-)

[dschmitz89]

Thank you, Daniel, will give you guys a heads up here when I publish on github!

[dschmitz89]

Hey guys,

my package is available on Github now under Apache 2 license: https://github.com/dschmitz89/simplenlopt
Docu: https://simplenlopt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Some parts still need some polishing, especially a PyPI build.

Let me know if the license needs to be more clear or if you have any other suggestions to improve it further :)

[ltiao]

Hey @dschmitz89, this looks great! I'll try to incorporate it in my upcoming project and let you know how it goes :)