tl;dr: use github.com/linguistics/utexas-latex instead.
This repository previously held a copy of the utdiss2-05 package as distributed by a now-defunct site hosted by the University of Texas at Austin's Office of Graduate Studies.
(The "Office of Graduate Studies" itself has apparently been deprecated, and replaced by the "Graduate School".)
The final available version of that site is archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20150627045550/http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/etd/LaTeX/UT+Dissertation.packages/.
According to that page, the distributed package was last "OFFICIAL" as of the 2001 requirements.
Considering that...
- as far as I know, there is no up-to-date Graduate School-maintained or official LaTeX package for University of Texas at Austin "electronic theses, reports dissertations and treatises",
- the only official typesetting help that UT provides consists of Microsoft Word templates,
- Microsoft Word sucks for writing long documents with references,
- the
utdiss2-05package was an absolute mess, - it had no explicit license,
- and it was more than a decade out of date,
...I have decided to go with a clean-room rewrite based on the current (as of writing, May 2016) "FORMAT GUIDELINES FOR DISSERTATIONS, TREASTISES, THESES AND REPORTS".
The latest version of the rewrite can be found at github.com/linguistics/utexas-latex. All development will be continued in that repository.
—Christopher Brown (@chbrown)