Re: LiDIA's statement of GPL only in mailing list archives

2007-07-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 08 Jul 2007, Ben Finney wrote: > An email has been judged sufficient for many Debian packages, if it > unambiguously specifies all of the above, and is clearly from the > copyright holder. Copy and paste into the 'debian/copyright' file > the part of the message that has all that informatio

Re: LiDIA's statement of GPL only in mailing list archives

2007-07-07 Thread Ben Finney
"Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When pressed, they responded that the mention of GPL license in the > mailing list should suffice: > > > http://www.cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/pipermail/lidia/2007-April/001150.html > > Is this good enough for Debian? A mailing list

Re: LiDIA's statement of GPL only in mailing list archives

2007-07-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso: > Is this good enough for Debian? In general, this is sufficient. In this particular case, I doubt that the persons which have been involved so far are allowed to make such a decision. It's also unlikely that the "LiDIA Group" is the copyright owner because it's not a

LiDIA's statement of GPL only in mailing list archives

2007-07-07 Thread Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso
LiDIA is an excellent C++ library for computational number theory. A few years ago, it had the best elliptic curve algorithms available anywhere, but it's since been almost abandoned upstream: http://www.cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/TI/LiDIA/ Its authors have already agreed to release it u