OK, here is the information regarding the GPL of LiDIA, taken from the LiDIA list from the one active developer of LiDIA (apart from Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso who has been working on the Debian port). Christoph is no longer at Darmstadt, but at WORMS but is the LiDIA maintainer. Presumably Buchmann was in charge of LiDIA at Darmstadt?
In addition, there was some discussion between Jordi and Christoph to create a sourceforge page for LiDIA. I think this would be an excellent idea. We have one for FLINT, and it has been invaluable. Bill. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From lidiaadm at cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Wed Oct 18 17:58:36 2006 From: lidiaadm at cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de (LiDIA Administrator) Date: Wed Oct 18 18:32:59 2006 Subject: [LiDIA] LiDIA available under GPL In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, LiDIA's license has always been very fuzzy: You could use it for research and other non-commercial purposes for free, but there was no statement regarding the re-distribution of LiDIA or derived work. There has been interest to create a Debian package of LiDIA, but a prerequisite was that LiDIA is released under the GPL (or some compatible license). I therefore asked for (and received) the permission from Prof. Buchmann to release LiDIA under the GPL. I won't be able to prepare a new release anytime soon that has the proper license text etc., but you can apply the GPL to the current release as well. Best regards Christoph --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
