[Haskell-cafe] Taking over setlocale

[adam vogt]

Another issue with the package was also came up recently here:
<http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2014-June/023157.html>

Regards,
Adam

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Gershom Bazerman <gershomb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/9/14, 5:56 PM, Carter Schonwald wrote:
>
> a) thats not how taking over maintainer ship works
> b) http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Taking_over_a_package
>
> taking over a package without the maintainers permission requires the
> maintainer being unreachable  for 6-12 months (or longer)
>
>
> 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.
>
> --Gershom
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Sven Bartscher
> <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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