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
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