Jan, hi, [ Cc'ing the ITP ]
Jan Wagner wrote: > I agree with you, that maintaining the package isn't a big trick. From the > last releases, the biggest issue was the review of the copyright/license > changes and probably maintaining additional patches. I'm not sure if you follow upstream's list so I'll repeat some stuff anyway. Some months ago I contacted some of the original authors about the licensing mess. The main author, Cengiz Alaettinoglu, who did the work for ISI/USC back then but has since left, promptly replied and was able to reach some of his old colleagues who convinced USC's management to a relicensing. All in all, we had a happy ending and all of the weird non-free licensing, including the stuff that had IBM copyrights(!) have been cleared and the license has been replaced by a standard MIT one! Nick and Shane were aware of this and were holding off the 5.0.0 release (the cruft-cleanout one) so that it can be released with the new license. 4.8.6 (= MIT-licensed 4.8.5) was released today, so 5.0.0 will soon follow. However, there are also some bad news: the project has been pronounced dead at the last RIPE summit by Nick. He has worked on it for over a year and decided that the software is broken beyond repair -- he's the one that cleaned up all the cruft. I objected and several others were not very happy about it; if you're not subscribed, have a look at the archives for the discussion that followed. I'm not sure how to proceed. I think the best course would be to wait a bit and see before uploading to Debian. Regards, Faidon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ba03b0e.30...@debian.org
