Re: Can we freely use AMOS in Octave?

[Steven G. Johnson]

I found something encouraging:

The AMOS functions are included in SLATEC, and the SLATEC guide 
(http://www.netlib.org/slatec/guide) explicitly states:

	"The Library is in the public domain and distributed by the Energy 
Science and Technology Software Center."

Mention of AMOS's inclusion in SLATEC goes back at least to this 1985 
technical report from Sandia National Labs:
    http://infoserve.sandia.gov/sand_doc/1985/851018.pdf

Since the national laboratories which distribute SLATEC and which are 
the authors of AMOS are willing to certify in writing that the code is 
in the public domain, it looks like we are off the hook?

(i.e. the possibility of copyright assignment to ACM is irrelevant 
because it wasn't copyrighted to begin with.)

Steven