Re: [l2h] Maintenance of latex2html

2003-10-20 Thread Roland Stigge
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 20:36, Jens Lehmann wrote: We are not in agreement yet. OK, I'm waiting for your decisions. Are there any news on the license issue? I guess Ross is still asking / waiting for people to agree to the GPL proposal. To speed things up a bit, I've got some additional points

Re: [l2h] Maintenance of latex2html

2003-10-16 Thread Michael Chapman
On Thursday 16 October 2003 2:12 am, Ross Moore wrote: OK; I've contacted Nikos and he is not averse to small changes in the license statement, provided that he gets to see them first, of course. I'd like to keep any such to be minimal, and without changing the intention of keeping the

Re: [l2h] Maintenance of latex2html

2003-10-16 Thread Jens Lehmann
Roland Stigge wrote: At Debian, there are quite some latex2html bugs open [1], many of them upstream related, i.e. maybe interesting for the current primary latex2html maintainer. latex2html in Debian is almost useless for standalone documents, because of #183372. If the maintainer would care

Re: [l2h] Maintenance of latex2html

2003-10-16 Thread Ross Moore
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Roland Stigge wrote: Hi Ross, thanks for your detailed mail. You're welcome. Thanks for pointing out clause D. But consider the following. Imagine the extreme (yet possible) case of a distribution including just packages all of which have a license like

Re: [l2h] Maintenance of latex2html

2003-10-16 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Ross, On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 18:43, Ross Moore wrote: If someone has just copied other people's software, and has not even provided installation routines, nor *anything at all* that adds value to the collection more than the sum of the free pieces, then he/she has no moral right to charge

Re: [l2h] Maintenance of latex2html

2003-10-15 Thread Roland Stigge
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 10:57, Torsten Bronger wrote: It being at least _possible_ to charge $200 is exactly what Debian requires from Free Software. Besides the GPL, please consider the LPPL or any other free license approved at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/. The LPPL isn't OSI

Re: [l2h] Maintenance of latex2html

2003-10-14 Thread Ross Moore
Hello Roland, On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Roland Stigge wrote: Hi, regarding the license issue, who's the current official maintainer of latex2html and/or responsible for licensing issues? I found different names: Nikos Drakos (author mentioned in LICENSE) Nikos has had nothing to do with the