John wrote (on -devel) that he is going to clean up here a little bit
and commit for the next release, which is cool!

He also wrote:
> I will try to clean it up a bit and commit it in the coming days. If
> someone with a bit of knowledge about sphinx wants to comment on how
> best to fix the referencing of the COPYING.txt file/text it would be
> appreciated.

Last time I looked at it, the issue was that there were two places
the stuff was build from. I agree we should make both of them sphinx.