Well for whatever it's worth, I've had a private conversation with him and I find his story compelling. I don't know if I can really offer any more than that.
I would just like to reiterate that even if I am mistaken this is far from the most likely disputed copyright claim on the project at all... and I'd really like to know where all the 'ohh copyvio are bad' folks are hiding every time I go up against a stuborn user whos feelings are hurt that I want to delete their beloved google image search. :-/
It seems that a lot of people have had ''private'' conversations with Coolcat. Some glaring admissions are the administrators processing his copyvios (myself in a couple of cases).
I've been treated very harshly by people who have apperantly heard these stories, and yet these administrators take no action except bashing me (see [[Talk:GAP_Project]]).
I don't reject the possibility that Coolcat is the copyright owner of the stuff he keeps submitting (on the GAP_Project). But I won't accept anonymous licence granting of previously published material when clearing copyright violations. This is the same criteria I applied to all copyvio's I've processed.
Duk