Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Licensing of tools/html2text.py
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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 14:29:02 -0800
On 11/3/13 7:36 AM, Evan Huus wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Bálint Réczey <balint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 2013/11/3 Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>> It appears to be licensed under GPLv3 only, which makes it
>>> incompatible for us to include.
>>>
>>> It seems to be included only because links/lynx didn't appear to work
>>> a while ago when building under WIndows. If that is no longer true
>>> then I think we can just remove it with no loss of functionality?
>>>
>>> Other suggestions, alternatives, etc welcome of course.
>> Have it installed during setup on Windows?
> 
> That might be sufficient. We carry one small delta vs upstream
> (r27040) and upstream has changed somewhat since we originally
> imported it. If the upstream version is still suitable, and they're
> willing to take our patch, then installing it during setup seems a
> simple solution.

I originally added it to tools because there isn't a standard,
ubiquitous way to convert HTML to text *anywhere*, not just Windows. I'm
OK with downloading it dynamically.

BTW, it looks like it was written by Aaron Swartz, who sadly passed away
in January.