Per email correspondence between hfs[at]waseda.jp and emma.robinson01[at]gmail.com on 14 October 2016:

"I hereby give permission to redistribute the ELC and HOCR library as a complete source code package as well as
 in a binary form, for non-commercial use, as part of the Multimodal Surface Matching (MSM) software.

As for commercial use, Waseda University has the right to negotiate and license any commercial use of at least
the ELC part of the software."

