Using your (?) funm in Octave

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

Hi, as you may be aware, GNU Octave is a free numerical environment
highly compatible with Matlab. We recently had a discussion in our
mailing list about Octave's implementation of funm:

   http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/matrix-functions-td3137935.html

As you can see from the above discussion, Philip Nienhuis noticed that
your group implemented a much better version of funm than what is
currently available in Octave. We see that you offer some code on your
website which you probably mean to distribute freely, but we cannot
use it unless you give the code an explicit free license (Octave
favours the GPL version 3, but any other free license of your choice
is acceptable). Would it be too much of a hassle to explicitly put a
free license on this?

Additionally, we were wondering if there was any chance of getting the
actual finished funm code. I personally don't have access to Matlab's
code, but Phillip said that the actual code in Matlab has a copyright
statement in The Mathworks' name, so presumably you signed away your
right to funm, and we cannot use it freely. Is this accurate?

Please note I'm also sending this email to the public mailing list
where the discussion of Octave's funm originated.

Thanks and happy new year,
- Jordi G. H.