[Haskell-cafe] Taking over setlocale

[Sven Bartscher]

On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 20:06:10 -0400
Gershom Bazerman <gershomb at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/9/14, 5:56 PM, Carter Schonwald wrote:
> The guideline there is "a reasonable time". That is much closer to 1 
> month than 6-12 months. I think one week is a bit short, but overall 
> sven seems to be following the process well, and given the last update 
> date on that package, we should still give a reasonable time to respond, 
> but I would err on the side of brevity if anything.

Greetings,

It's now longer than a months ago, that I send the first post about
this.
I think this is a reasonable time to respond for the maintainer.
Are there still any objections or can I now contact
admin at hackage.debian.org?

Regards
Sven

> >
> > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Sven Bartscher 
> > <sven.bartscher at weltraumschlangen.de 
> > <mailto:sven.bartscher at weltraumschlangen.de>> wrote:
> >
> >     Greetings,
> >
> >     I would like to take over the setlocale package. Following the steps
> >     described on
> >     http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Taking_over_a_package I
> >     need to state my intention on a public forum.
> >
> >     The original author (Lukas Mai) published his package in the Public
> >     Domain. This would be fine, but the Author seems to be living in
> >     Germany. The problem with that is that in Germany an author is not
> >     allowed to give up his copyright in this way. This means the licensing
> >     of the package defaults to "All rights reserved", making the package
> >     undistributable.
> >
> >     I already tried to contact the author about this problem, but he
> >     didn't
> >     respond in a week. This isn't a very long time, but I didn't get an
> >     answer on past attempts to contact him (this was at least a month, but
> >     probably more, ago).
> >
> >     To solve this problem, I rewrote the setlocale binding with the
> >     same API
> >     under the BSD3-clause.
> >
> >     PS: Please keep the CC to Lukas Mai and the debian-haskell list
> >         intact.
> >
> >     Regards
> >     Sven

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