Steven L. Scott is the sole author, creator of the BOOM project. Some code in the BOOM libraries has been modified from other open source projects. These include Cephes, NEWUOA, a modified version of the R math libraries, Original copyright notices have been maintained in all source files. In these cases, copyright claimed by Steven L. Scott is limited to modifications made to the original code. Google claims copyright for code written while Steven L. Scott was employed at Google from 2008 - 2018, but BOOM is not an officially supported Google project.