On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 22:49:10 +0100 Roland Stigge wrote: > The current situation is that upstream has the permission of the > University of Leeds to relicense under the GPL.
This is good news! :)
> 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.
I'm looking forward to seeing a GPL'ed version.
>
> 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).
Well, yes.
I was actually thinking about a permission notice (even sent via e-mail)
stating that version 2002-2-1 can be distributed under the terms of the
GNU General Public License, version 2.
Such a notice should *not* be Debian-specific (otherwise we would fail
DFSG#8), and it could *not* be anyway (since whoever gets a version
under the GPL has permission to redistribute in his/her turn under
the GPL itself).
Such a permission notice should be sent from *all* the LaTeX2HTML
copyright holders, so, yes: same amount of upstream work to do (apart
from solving possible technical issues that block the release of a new
version, if there are at all!).
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