Hi Ross,
first of all: Thank you! :-) I was very happy to integrate the new GPL
version (2008) of Latex2html into Debian.
However, I'm sending you the REJECT mail from the archive administrators
who found some problems with the current licensing. They are very
strict, and it looks like we need to address those issues first before
we have latex2html in "Debian main" again.
Thanks in advance!
Roland
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Dear maintainer,
REJECT: insufficient copyright, not suitable for main.
I find many probles with this package, SOME of them are documented below.
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L2hos/* say:
"using stuff from the former Override.pm and from the File::Spec modules"
The license of the the File::Spec module is Artistic, and this license
isn't mentioned in the copyright file. None ofr the File::Spec
Copyright holders are mentioned. This is something upstream shoudl address.
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cweb2html/Makefile (and many other files in this directory):
################################################################################
# Copyright 1998-1999 by Jens Lippmann (lippm...@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de)
#
# Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
# purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
# copyright notice appears in all copies. This software is provided "as is"
# and without any express or implied warranties.
#
################################################################################
These copyright holders, nor this license is mentioned in debian/copyright.
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docs/changebar/changebar.dtx
is Copyright 1994-1995 Johannes Braams, and contains restrictions not
suitable for main, such as, "You are NOT ALLOWED to change this file".
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there may be other problems, I stop here.
bye,
stew
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