Francesco Poli wrote: > On 06 Mar 2005 14:41:23 GMT MJ Ray wrote: >>Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it> wrote: >>>Perhaps a (wishlist?) bug should be file against the latex2html >>>package. What do you think? >> >>Such a good idea that Roland Stigge already did it: >>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=221703 > > Well, I admit I didn't dig into the BTS before suggesting that... :p > > Good news: wishlist bug is already filed. > Bad news: there seems to be no progress since January 2004. > > I'm writing to Roland right now to ask for clarifications... In response to Roland's last mail in that bug report: > 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). Actually, a simple email from the upstream author has been considered in the past to be sufficient authorization for a license change. If upstream were to send an email saying something to the effect of "I hereby relicense all versions of latex2html under the GNU GPL, version 2.", I believe that would be sufficent. - Josh Triplett
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