[Texi2html-bug] Re: FSF assignment?

[Derek Price]

Hi Karl, Patrice,

Looks like Patrice has stayed busy!  I hadn't checked my Texi2HTML
mailboxes in a little while.

I'll be happy to complete the copyright assignment paperwork and mail it
in the next day or three.  I'll try to get to it today, but I'm moving
my office so things are a little chaotic at the moment.

Are you planning on leaving Texi2HTML as its own project and importing
releases to Texinfo or moving the whole source tree into the Texinfo
repository?

I've had a plan in the back of my head for some time to move the
majority of the texi2html.pl functionality into a Texi2HTML.pm Perl
module and release it on CPAN.  My motive for doing so is to make the
functionality available for a Wiki::Toolkit::Formatter plugin I was also
hoping to write and which I could use in conjunction with some MediaWiki
plugins for Wiki::Toolkit and a MediaWiki clone that I have already
written.  Do you think it would be possible to make Texi2HTML available
under a dual Perl Artistic/GPL license?  What would be the right way to
go about getting THAT change in place?  Is this compatible with your plans?

Thanks,

Derek


Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
> 
>     no problem with me.
> 
> Great!
> 
>     FSF already has papers from me for XEmacs and Gnus.
>     Based on that, what else do I need to do?
> 
> Do the same papers for Texinfo.  Unfortunately they have to be signed
> for each project separately.
> 
>     What does the "we" above stand for?
> 
> Patrice and me.  As Texinfo maintainer, I asked Patrice about the
> possibility, he wrote the texi2html list(s), and it all seems like a win ...
> 
>     Which project will use texi2html?
> 
> Texinfo.  The idea is that I will retire the C makeinfo from the Texinfo
> distribution, and we will incorporate texi2html into the distribution in
> its place.  We'll install texi2html as both "makeinfo" and "texi2html".
> 
> Patrice has already mostly implemented the other output formats (Info,
> XML, Docbook, plain text) and taken care of lots of other compatibility
> issues.  Development continues, as always.
> 
> Legally, the goal is make the FSF the copyright holder for the sake of
> uniformity.
> 
>     I'll look into this within the coming few days.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Karl


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