Who wants the splines-gcvspl package?

[Carnë Draug]

Hi everyone

some time ago, more than 1 year ago, we decided to drop the non free
section from Octave Forge. One package remains from there,
splines-gcvspl[1]. This package is a wrapper around the gcvspl FORTRAN
routine which is free for non-commercial use only. The rest of the
code is public domain.

The copyright owner has died in a car accident some years ago and I
have no means to track down who's the owner now and ask them to change
the license. All e-mails I have of the person who wrote the rest,
Joerg Specth, fail to be delivered. I have tried to contact the
secretary of his former lab but they haven't replied to me.

I would like someone to take the code and host it somewhere. I'm not
asking anyone to maintain it, it actually doesn't seem to require
maintenance. Will someone take the code and host it somewhere? I'd
imagine Agora [3] to be the ideal place for someone to put it. Does
someone cares about this package?

Carnë

[1] http://octave.sourceforge.net/spline-gcvspl/index.html
[2] http://www.netlib.org/gcv/gcvspl
[3] http://agora.octave.org/code