Re: xTuple Postbooks license change
Hi,
On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 at 00:12, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 1:12 AM Seth McClain wrote:
>
> > xTuple recently took most of their git repos off of github and is
> > changing the license to much of the code moving forward.
> >
> > https://xtuple.com/blog/ned/free-software
> >
> > Debian currently offers builds of Postbooks.
> >
> > https://salsa.debian.org/xtuple-maintainers-team
>
> I'd encourage you to file a bug against the postbooks package to
> discuss this with the Debian xTuple maintainers team.
This is the trouble: there’s no such thing as Debian xTuple
maintainers team anymore. I started that team since I worked for a
company using Postbooks at the time, but I no longer do, and I never
really used any of that software. Daniel was the other member, but I
can’t imagine him going back to package maintenance any time soon.
> > It would be a shame for the FOSS community to lose this CPAL licensed
> > software.
> >
> > Which directions might the Debian community take regarding Postbooks?
>
> When Redis changed the license of some modules recently, the Debian
> and Fedora package maintainers forked the affected modules from the
> commits prior to the license changes under a new organisation called
> GoodFORM. Since Postbooks is distributed in Debian (and derivatives)
> as well as Fedora/EPEL, the same process could be done for Postbooks.
>
> https://goodformcode.com/
> https://repology.org/project/postbooks/packages
Yes, but that needs people working on the fork upstream. I didn’t know
about GoodFORM though.
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Cheers,
Andrej
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