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Re: RFC: Support for zstd in .deb packages?



Hi Guillem,

On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 11:41 PM Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com> wrote:
>
>
> > On May 4, 2018, at 6:22 AM, Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > On Fri, 2018-04-27 at 07:02:12 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> >> The following is a quick run-down of the items from [F], not all
> >> being important from Debian's perspective, but being for dpkg's:
> >
> >> * License: Permissive (dual BSD + GPL-2), which makes universal
> >>  availability possible.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I've just noticed that the project requires a CLA,
> > which means universal contributions are *not* possible. :(

I'm not a fan of CLAs either, but as I understand upstream requiring a
CLA is not a blocker for compression libraries.

> >  <https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/CONTRIBUTING.md>
> >  <https://code.facebook.com/cla>
> >
> > Nick & Yann, I'm assuming this is some corporate requirement from
> > Facebook, and it's probably not going to go away?
>
> Yup, it is here to stay.

Nick, thanks for the clarification.

Cheers,
Balint

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Balint Reczey
Ubuntu & Debian Developer


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