[Pkg-octave-devel] Copyright issues in octave-integration

[Rafael Laboissiere]

The integration package contains, as usual, the COPYING file stating that
the source files are released under the GPL-2+.  However, none of the inst/*.m
and inst/*/*.m files have copyright notices (licensecheck yileds "*No
copyright* UNKNOWN" for all of them).

However, doc/README says that some of the routines were taken from NETLIB
and the original author is Howard Wilson.  The second (and apparently the
last) maintainer of the integration pkg, Bryce Gardner, states the following
in the doc/README.Copying file: 


    Date: Thu, 24 Aug 95 10:15:57 EDT
    From: bgard at autoa.com (Bryce Gardner)
    Message-Id: <9508241415.AA00684 at autoa.com>
    To: Dutt.Vinayak at mayo.EDU
    Subject: Re:  Integration toolbox for MATLAB

    Hi,

    Sorry it took me so long to get back to you.  I am on the octave mailing
    list, so I already saw that you were porting the integration routines to
    OCTAVE.  I am glad to see that you did; it is certainly OK with me to
    distribute them with OCTAVE.  I'm glad to see that they are being used.

    Bryce


This is not enough clear to me.  Is the (second) author authorizing the
distribution of the pacakge under the GPL?

-- 
Rafael