relicence texi2html in public domain

Dumas Patrice <[email protected]> Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:07:01 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texi2html.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Olaf,

I am a contributor to texi2html located at texi2html.cvshome.org. Lately
I wanted to put some code from texi2html.pl in texi2html.init. As texi2html.pl
was copyrighted by the FSF I send them a mail, but they never respond. Then I
send that mail to Karl Berry, and he responded that he put the FSF copyright
without asking them, and also that he doesn't want to be copyright holder.

This means that you are more or less the copyright holder. Karl proposed
to put the software in the public domain, given these issues. After that it
will still be possible to relicence it under a free software licence, once
somebody is ready to be the copyright holder. Thus, would you agree to 
disclaim copyright interest in texi2html ? I know this is a quite strange 
request, as you never reclaimed copyright interest, but it seems to be
the cleanest and simplest way to go. That way texi2html would be in the
public domain.

Thanks for your interest.

Pat