Re: Status of icons in latex2html

[Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>]

Hi,

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 21:43 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > So, I would like to ship the icons in the .deb, and repoint the links.
> > My problem is: is this legal?  Here is what I think is the relevant part
> > of the copyright:
> >
> > o  Any work distributed or published that in whole or in part
> >    contains or is a derivative of this software or any part
> >    thereof is subject to the terms of this agreement. The
> >    aggregation of another unrelated program with this software
> >    or its derivative on a volume of storage or distribution
> >    medium does not bring the other program under the scope
> >    of these terms.

Please note that the "selling clause" is the relevant part
(DFSG-incompatible).

> The Latex2HTML maintainer, Roland Stigge, contacted the upstream
> developer of Latex2HTML and his university, both of which indicated they
> would be willing to relicense under the GPL.  If they did so, you would
> clearly have no problem with GPL-compatibility; for that matter, you
> could simply Build-Depends: latex2html and build the documentation in
> the package.  However, upstream stated that they would relicense in the
> next version, which does not seem to have occurred.  I suggest that the
> easiest course of action would be to contact Latex2HTML upstream and
> requesting that he just make a permission statement (via email is fine)
> that grants permission to use Latex2HTML under the GPL.

Since I'm already doing this on a regular basis, other DDs shouldn't do
this in parallel. But it would be nice if others (maybe DDs in mufti)
would ask, too, to show general interest in this question.

Thanks.

bye,
  Roland