Watch this space for a very helpful response from Christoph Ludwig which I will forward...
John On 29/10/2007, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Oct 29, 2:22 am, Bill Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 28 Oct, 20:26, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > OK, so I wasn't trying to suggest that I was the first to have got as > > > far.... but every little helps, and if Johannes remembers to ask > > > Christoph then he may be sprred into action. > > > > > As for physically GPL-ing the code, here's what I did for mwrank, > > > where admittedly the source code was not split into so many dir- and > > > subdirectories: I made a separate file containg the GPL info. I made > > > sure that every source file had basic identification in line 1 only, > > > followed by a coupld of blank lines; then a simple sed script > > > inserted the GPL text into every file after line 1. Done! I thnk the > > > same coud work with LiDIA source if combined with a find script to > > > apply this to every .cc and .h file there is. > > > > That sounds good. The individual tar.gz files for Lidia are in my home > > directory on host-57-71 if you want to have a go. But in order to > > maintain the integrity of LiDIA it would be necessary to unpack each > > of the tar.gz files in turn and apply the script to the tree and > > rearchive. > > > > I'm not sure how svn can be used in a way that would keep each of the > > modules of LiDIA separate but still allow one to check out all of > > LiDIA in one go into a single directory tree. Do you know if cvs can > > do this? > > > > > > > > > I would behappy to do that -- but with all of us including JB onto > > > him, maybey CL will do it himself. > > > > Reading the LiDIA list it seems that Christoff has a few patches he's > > got to merge as well. But we can probably do quite a lot with just the > > GPL'ing done. Perhaps one of the things putting him off is that he has > > so many things that need to be done to get it all into shape. > > > > > > > > > Either way, it sounds as if you (Bill) are the one with most LiDIA > > > expertise on the Sage team by now! > > > > Ha ha! I've contributed precisely nothing to LiDIA. I contend that you > > are the only expert here John! > > > > Bill. > > FYI: > > [23:24] <rpw> I'll try to talk to christopher and JB about GPLing the > LiDIA code tomorrow. > [23:25] <rpw> I actuallys set up a subversion repo for LiDIA a couple > of weeks ago. > [23:25] <mabshoff> Jep, I figured you were the right guy to do that in > person :) > [23:25] <rpw> further details on sage-devel (ml) tomorrow morning. > [23:25] <mabshoff> mk > [23:25] <rpw> I'm to tired to type straight atm. I've been awake too > long. > [23:26] <rpw> see you guys in about 8 hours. > > So you might want to wait a day for rpw. > > Cheers, > > Michael > > > > > -- John Cremona --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
