* On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Jacek Caban wrote: > HtmlHelp maker (hhc, see [1]) doesn't create internal files (parts of > chm that describes stuff like index or default topic) and it's GPLed so > it's useless for Wine (unless author would relicense it for us).
Quoting Paul Wise resume from the [1]: | Started off hacking on frhed (a windows hex editor) | Made some lame/unfinished patches for POV-Ray | Wrote some tiny windows software | Wrote chmdeco/hhm/chmspec | Been hacking on activismo for a while | Looking forward to getting ADSL & contributing to xCHM, possibly WINE, GNOME, random projects. | I'd also like to become a debian developer at some stage. Paul seems to be excited about Wine, so hhm relicensing should sound OK for him, IMHO. But only if proved it isn't breaking M$ licences [2], right? > I think it would be a good project for Google Summer of Code. The task > would be to write a hhc replacement and add a help option to winecfg. > hhc replacement (say whhc) would have to be a plain UNIX tool (it means > a bit of code duplication with itss.dll, just like we do in widl) so we > could use it during compilation. I think its difficulty is good for SoC. > Compressing code may be integrated from some other project. The > remaining parts are code of parser of files describing chm and a little > winecfg hacking. What do you think? Nice idea. Maybe even Paul himself would join that, as he states in his blog [3] he needs "Employment, bux, moolah, work". (I've Bcc-ed Paul in his message) > [1] http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/hhm [2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/htmlhelp/html/hwhtmlhelpend-userlicenseagreement.asp [3] http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/