Re: texi2html copyright and licence

Dumas Patrice <[email protected]> Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:41:32 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texi2html.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I'm sure that Lionel is right, and my memory was simply faulty.  Or else
> I didn't know that Lionel had offered it to the FSF and put the FSF on
> as the owner independently.  But I don't think it really matters.

I will ask the FSF anyway, such that they give their advice.

> This can't be the first time this problem has come up.  It seems that
> Red Hat includes texi2html in the distribution, at least it is on my rh9
> system.  Maybe they would like to be the copyright holder.  Or maybe
> there is some other neutral organization which does this as a service to
> the free software community?  It sure seems like there should be.  Open
> Source Initiative?

I have searched a bit on the web, but I have only seen the FSF. There is
nothing on the Open Source Initiative website about such a thing. I have
also seen something from collabnet, 
http://www.collab.net/news/press/2002/softwareconservancy.html
but it doesn't seems to be really used. Does anybody knows something else ?

Pat