Hi Francesco, thanks for your interest in a DFSG-free latex2html.
On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 18:48 +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > During a discussion on the debian-legal mailing list, I learned that > latex2html is probably going to be relicensed under the GNU GPL (very > very good news!). > > I thought that a wishlist bug should be filed against the package to > suggest that the Debian maintainer (you!) could ask upstream for a > permission to relicense the versions that are distributed by Debian at > present. > I've been pointed to the already existing bug #221703. > > Well, it seems that no progress has been made since January 2004. > > Could you please tell me what's going on? > Are there any difficulties in persuading upstream? > > Thank you for your time. The current situation is that upstream has the permission of the University of Leeds to relicense under the GPL. I guess he is still sorting out some issues, but the next version should be GPL'ed. I know that progress has been slowed down due to personal problems that I can understand. So we need to be patient, I guess. Relicensing a special Debian version would actually be equivalent to a general GPL'ed licensing for latex2html, IMHO (and would require the same amount of upstream work to do). Thanks for considering. Feel free to discuss the issue at the latex2html mailing list (latex2html@tug.org). bye, Roland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
