Dear Carsten, I certainly support your position. And if *anybody's* wishes should be honoured, I would think yours should be at the top of that list, along with the wishes of the other (at least) 4 copyright holders' of ox-html.el.
Cheers, Jay On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 11.3.2013, at 05:08, Jambunathan K <kjambunat...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Even if my combative positioning doesn't amount to anything much, I want >> to throw in a little friction by the way of Bastien and the current >> release. I am stating my purpose in no uncertain terms - yes it is to >> delay the release or cause confusion. > > I don't think there is any confusion pertaining to the 8.0 release. These > files were brought into the Org-mode repository, marked as GPL from the > start, so there are no formal issues including them in 8.0 in their current > form. Wether ox-odt.el should be moved to contrib as per Achims suggestion I > don't know. I would object moving ox-html.el, it contains a lot of variable > definitions, documentation strings and code I and others wrote, even if you > have made the interface with org-elemets. > > We will see in how far the FSF will follow your arguments and what will > happen when we merge 8.0 into the Emacs distribution. So I don't see a > reason to hold up the 8.0 release. With respect to Emacs, we will have time > to resolve the issue one way or another. > > - Carsten
