From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon May 14 20:55:18 2001
Subject: Re: License/redistribution of Fortran source from Netlib ??
From: "James R. Van Zandt" <jrv at vanzandt dot mv dot com>
To: RobertD at athenesoft dot com
CC: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 20:54:17 -0400 (EDT)


> Can someone associated with Octave tell me what they
> know about licensing Netlib or other archive source code?

I think the netlib code that Octave uses all dates back to "the good
old days" when uploading code to an ftp archive implied that it was
public domain.  If the code has been sitting there a long time, and
the author has never bothered to add an explicit license, what else
does he expect us to assume?

	- Jim Van Zandt