LICENSE.txt

Academic License

Copyright (c) 2025 Flavio Mangione
Sapienza University of Rome - Optimization Methods for Data Science

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to use,
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subject to the following conditions:

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This software was developed as part of academic coursework and is intended
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