According to the mailing list for LiDIA, it was GPL'd last year, but no one has updated the web page with the new license information. More precisely, the authors agreed to allow it to be GPL'd last year, but none of the files contain the GPL preamble, nor is there a copy of the GPL in the tarball.
It actually looks like someone would need to repackage LiDIA for the GPL since the whole package appears to have been pretty much abandoned (the developers list was closed after a year of nothing more than spam). But this would be a nontrivial task given the large number of files involved. Probably with explicit permission of the authors to GPL LiDIA, some motivated individual could just apply the license to all the files and assuming someone could be found to update the webpage, this could just go ahead. I get the feeling that no one is going to do this for us. The project has all but been abandoned. There is no motivation for anyone to go to all this trouble. There is however some information in the list archives which seems to indicate that there may still be one developer who still answers posts regarding the project. Fortunately there haven't been a ridiculous number of contributors to LiDIA, so if that one developer has information on which authors have agreed to GPL the code, it might be possible to get this done relatively painlessly. Bill. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
