Code included in PyDSM

Versions 0.9.x of PyDSM include the cvxpy package by Tomas Tinoco de Rubira.

This is a discontinued library for modeling convex optimization problems in Python. It has been superseeded by another library by Steven Diamond, Eric Chu and Stephen Boyd that carries the same name, but has a different API.

Since PyDSM was developed on the API of the former cvxpy, in order to support functionality the former cvxpy package is distributed inside PyDSM as a temporary solution. In the long term, PyDSM will move to use the newer cvxpy by Steven Diamond.

The cvxpy library provided with PyDSM was originally distributed under the GPL3 license by its original author. See the source files for further information. The PyDSM distribution installs it outside of the pydsm package as cvxpy_tinoco in order to avoid name conflicts with the newer cvxpy.

The version shipped is the latest available from the original author plus patches by Sergio Callegari and others. Some of these patches fix minor errors with the code. A substantial set of patches is used to make all the internal imports of the library relative, in order to make the library relocatable to a new name.