I need help deciding what to do with Crafty
Crafty has a new license (below) that everyone agrees takes it out of
"free" where an older version currently resides. I have had requests to
upgrade the package.
I guess I have the following options:
1) Do nothing. Just keep maintaining the older version which is very
unlikely to be updated.
2) Keep the old version (which plays a pretty mean game) in "free" and
add a new package in "non-free" or "contrib".
3) Get rid of the old package altogether and just maintain the non-free
version.
4) Drop Crafty.
Is there some way to get a consensus on what should be done?
Thanks,
Paul Serice
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