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[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Mats Lidell writes:

 > [1]  I have thought of adding it but I have failed to reach its author
 > Wayne Mesard. It is GPLv1 or later so I guess adding it would be OK
 > but it seems decent to ask first.

If he's not reachable by an email address in the package itself, try
Google.  If that fails, give up and just add it.

IMHO, the main reason for contacting authors is to solicit them to be
maintainer in the XEmacs package system. :-)