Great! I will be in a Lie Algebras course this fall so this is definitely on my radar. Other packages of interest are
Schur http://schur.sourceforge.net/ Atlas of Lie Groups Software http://www.liegroups.org/software/ --Mike On 8/24/07, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good news: LiE is now GPL'd. > > This does a number of Lie algebra computations and > representation-theoretic computations which people on this list > have expressed interest in. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Marc van Leeuwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Aug 24, 2007 5:23 AM > Subject: Re: LiE questions > To: David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > David Joyner wrote: > > Hi Marc: > > > > I was just thinking about this package again recently for some reason. > > > > I wonder if you could please ask if it is possible for LiE to > > be GPL'd at some point in the future. If not, fine, but I'd > > like to know if you or Prof Cohen think that is likely. > > > > - David > > Since the time of that message I have clarified the issue with prof. Cohen. > As is now indicated on the Lie home page > http://www-math.univ-poitiers.fr/~maavl/LiE/ > you can distribute LiE under the (GNU) LGPL. It is not clear to me why this > choice was made, since LiE is not distributed as a library, but I think this > is > because a part of LiE has thus been incorporated into Magma. In any case, if > you read the fine print of the LGPL, it is allowed to take a copy and > distribute that copy under the GPL (but that copy can then no longer be > converted back to LGPL). I hope this helps you out, best regards, > > -- Marc van Leeuwen > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
