[Texi2html-bug] Re: texi2html and texinfo

[Karl Berry]

    Therefore, the "forking" could simply require maintaining the
    dual-licensed version and distributing it via CPAN then importing
    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.

>From my point of view, as I've tried to describe before, my
hope/plan/goal was for what's in Texinfo to be the source.  I want to be
able to fix a bug in Texinfo without having to worry about synchronizing
with anything else.

And, independent of that, Texinfo certainly has to install as a
completely standalone distribution without requiring people to get
anything from CPAN.  In the event that there's a .pm file, my thought
was that we end up installing it in, say,
$(datadir)/texinfo/Texi2HTML.pm and the texi2html script would have some
BEGIN code to find it there.  (Or maybe relative to itself, or both.)

If all the authors agree, I figured the CPAN thing could be done by
rearranging the relevant files in Texinfo, changing the licenses, and
uploading the result.

I am sorry this has become such a major issue.  I had hoped we could
just use texi2html in Texinfo and be happy.  Oh well.

Best,
karl