Well, LiS was initially written by Graham Wheeler and me and after the
code was almost completed we two dismissed from the project due to
lack of time. Then dave@gcom.com (yes GCom, LiS is free software under
GPL though) took the sources and did a fine work.
See http://ftp.gcom.com/linxprod.html and the archive of the
linux-streams mailing list at
http://www.gsyc.inf.uc3m.es/~majordomo/linux-streams/
HTH
-Nemo.