ack/">LAPACK</a> for example.
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A Fortran77 reference implementation of the BLAS is located in the
<a href="http://www.netlib.org/blas/">blas directory</a> of Netlib.
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    2)  Are there legal restrictions on the use of BLAS reference implementation software?<br>
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The reference BLAS is a freely-available
software package.  It is available from netlib via anonymous ftp and
the World Wide Web.  Thus, it can be included in commercial
software packages (and 