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[Texi2html-bug] Re: texi2html and texinfo
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Derek Price |
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[Texi2html-bug] Re: texi2html and texinfo |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:54:55 -0500 |
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Karl Berry wrote:
> Where would I get the list of who had to sign paperwork for texi2html
> w/email addresses?
>
> I can give you the list if/when you want it. It's all the people we've
Yes, please, send me a copy of that list.
> So in principle, since all the contributors (except Lionel) have agreed,
> it seems you could make a different package and upload it to CTAN under
> Artistic + GPL. And those changes (ie, the existence of Texi2html.pm)
> could be in the original Texinfo/texi2html distribution.
>
> However, unless rms agrees, what ends up in the Texinfo distribution has
> to be licensed under GPLv3+ and nothing else. So we'd end up with a
> forked texi2html-equivalent just for the sake of the license. And
Well, the Perl dual license which I was proposing to duplicate for the
CPAN distribution specifically states:
It is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of either:
a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version,
or
b) the "Artistic License".
Therefore, the "forking" could simply require maintaining the
dual-licensed version and distributing it via CPAN then importing
periodically to texinfo sans changes and distributing it as GPLv3+
there. Better yet, perhaps distributing the CPAN module separately and
a simple GPLv3+ wrapper script requiring the CPAN module from texinfo
would be the best idea. This would certainly require the least work on
our part.
> we'd have to ask any new contributors to agree to the Artistic dual-license.
Seems reasonable.
Regards,
Derek
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