On 10/03/2012 01:23, Ben Finney wrote: > Jérémy Lal <[email protected]> writes: > >> On 09/03/2012 23:14, Ben Finney wrote: >>>> On 06/03/2012 19:20, Isaac Schlueter wrote: > >>>>> In other words, if the terms of this license keep npm out of >>>>> Debian Stable, or any particular distro, then that means it's >>>>> working. The fact that npm is not in the distro is worse for the >>>>> distro than it is for npm. >>> >>> That's certainly not going to help in any discussions to work with >>> Debian. Maybe we would be best respecting the copyright holder's >>> clearly stated wishes to keep this work out of Debian. >> >> What he implies is that he'd rather keep npm in debian unstable. > > Jose Luis Rivas <[email protected]> writes: > >> As far as I'm concerned, and reading the answer from the copyright >> holder, he just wishes not to be bug by any change from the >> distro-side. > > Jérémy and Jose, you are reading Isaac's words in a way I can't > understand.
We are just reading between the lines. I may be wrong, but i think he's just saying it with bad faith. Here's the kind of guy we're dealing with : https://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues/533 > Isaac is clear about his intent for the effect of the license: “if the > terms of this license keep npm out of Debian Stable, or any particular > distro, then that means it's working.” > > That's not “he'd rather keep npm in Debian unstable”, since he also > wants the work to remain out of “any particular distro”. Keeping the > work in Debian unstable does not meet that intent. > > That's not “he just wishes not to be bugged” – yes, he wishes not to be > bugged, but he goes further: he states that it is an intent of the > license to keep the package out of “any particular distro”. > > > It would be nice to believe what you are both saying, but Isaac's words > contradict that belief. He is explicitly stating he does not want the > package in Debian “or any particular distro”. He is explicitly stating > that's an intent of the license terms. > > I think we should honour that intent, since the upstream attitude is > surely an indicator that they will resist any requests to make the work > easier to package in Debian. Should he take more obvious measures, i'd say yes. My preference goes to sharing the npm packaging work to other debian users, but i also can do that on a private repository - that's what he wants. Anyway right now it's only at the discussion level. His license terms are not against DFSG, are they ? Jérémy. _______________________________________________ Pkg-javascript-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-javascript-devel
