Why Fork the LaTeX2HTML Distribution?

I have reported all of the above-cited bugs to the official mailing list, to some individuals, and to various bugzilla bug reports, but they were never incorporated into an official ``upstream'' release. Also, there don't appear to be any new releases since 2002, and even that one seems to be an unofficial personal version. The original CVS repository trunk appears to have disappeared. Since I have a funded research project that depends on all team members having a working version of latex2html, I decided to create the above version and post it on my website.