Give them a break. Most academic researchers don&#x27;t have any motivation to &quot;trap&quot; people using sneaky tactics like that. Furthermore, a lot of people in academia are pretty oblivious to the nuisances between the mind-boggling variety of software licences out there.<p>I&#x27;m not saying it&#x27;s right to be oblivious, but more than likely some poor sleepless grad student is more worried about his&#x2F;her thesis, graduating, and getting the whole algorithm published in a journal, having lots of people use it and cite her&#x2F;him, than trapping and suing people. Doing sneaky stuff on purpose would reflect very poorly on the student, professor, research group, and institution.<p>If this were the work of a startup, I would have a different opinion, but coming out of UCLA, I&#x27;d highly, highly, highly doubt they are deliberately trying to trap you.<p>Send them a comment on Github and gently remind them to provide licence information.