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+// Copyright ©2015 The gonum Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// Package native is a pure-go implementation of the LAPACK API. The LAPACK API defines
+// a set of algorithms for advanced matrix operations.
+//
+// The function definitions and implementations follow that of the netlib reference
+// implementation. Please see http://www.netlib.org/lapack/explore-html/ for more
+// information, and http://www.netlib.org/lapack/explore-html/d4/de1/_l_i_c_e_n_s_e_source.html
+// for more license information.
+//
+// Slice function arguments frequently represent vectors and matrices. The data
+// layout is identical to that found in https://godoc.org/github.com/gonum/blas/native.
+//
+// Most LAPACK functions are built on top the routines defined in the BLAS API,
+// and as such the computation time for many LAPACK functions is
+// dominated by BLAS calls. Here, BLAS is accessed through the
+// the blas64 package (https://godoc.org/github.com/gonum/blas/blas64). In particular,
+// this implies that an external BLAS library will be used if it is
+// registered in blas64.
+//
+// The full LAPACK capability has not been implemented at present. The full
+// API is very large, containing approximately 200 functions for double precision
+// alone. Future additions will be focused on supporting the gonum matrix
+// package (https://godoc.org/github.com/gonum/matrix/mat64), though pull requests
+// with implementations and tests for LAPACK function are encouraged.
+package native