[Texi2html-bug] Re: FSF assignment?

[Karl Berry]

Hi Derek (and all),

    I'll be happy to complete the copyright assignment paperwork and
    mail it in the next day or three.

Great, thanks.

    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?

Moving the sources into Texinfo.  Of course any texi2html developers who
want to continue to work on it are more than welcome, indeed I'm pretty
much counting on Patrice. :)

    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.

Sounds reasonable.  We could somehow build the CPAN release out of
Texinfo too, presumably.  I'm not exactly sure how the Texinfo and CPAN
versions would interact, but we can figure it out one way or another.
(I mean, the Texinfo make install isn't going to be installing anything
into /usr/local/lib/perl5 or whatever.)

    Do you think it would be possible to make Texi2HTML available under
    a dual Perl Artistic/GPL license?   

Is it required for CPAN?  I don't object myself, but we'd have to ask rms.

    What would be the right way to go about getting THAT change in place?  

Well, it will be simpler to make any licensing change after the
paperwork has been done, so there's only one copyright holder.  Since
Lionel and I already assigned our work to FSF, they already have to be
involved, so nothing is lost ...
    
(BTW, on the assignment front, it turns out Olaf Bachmann works at
Google now.  His email is still a mystery, but I asked another GNU'er
who works at Google to contact him.  Hopefully we'll get through to him
in a few days.)

    Is this compatible with your plans?

I hope so ...

Thanks,
Karl