[Texi2html-bug] Re: texi2html and texinfo

[Derek Price]

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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