Hello Shehzad,
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 03:49:50PM +0000, Shehzad Ali wrote:
> Yes, the license (L)GPL v2 or higher is fine for me.
Thanks.
> Pablo works at Mandriva now according to his LinkedIn profile. Their is another e-mail on his website. Would you like me to find that for you?
That would be great if you could find out that other e-mail address,
this would help a lot!
Thank you
Helge
>
> Regards
> Shehzad
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 15:36:08
> To: <shehzadashiq@hotmail.com>
> Cc: <pablo@mandrakesoft.com>; <pablo@mandriva.com>; <shehzadashiq@yahoo.com>; <555168@bugs.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: Bug#555168: Unclear license situation for (e)glibc locales
> provided by you
>
>
> Hello Shehzad,
> thanks for your answer. Just to make sure I understand you correctly:
> The license (L)GPL v2 or higher is fine for you, correct?
>
> Also thanks for the new address of Pablo, unfortunately, it also does
> not work.
>
> Greetings
>
> Helge
>
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 03:56:55PM +0100, Shehzad Ali wrote:
> > Hello Dr. Kreutzmann
> >
> > I have absolutely no objections to the statement being modified to allow for modification and re-licensed. Pablo contacted me for help so I have included his updated e-mail in the reply too. As long as the locale can be updated, modified and distributed freely for the benefit of everyone I have no objections :)
> > If you require anything else from me please do not hesitate to ask.
> >
> > Regards
> > Shehzad
> >
> > > Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 15:22:30 +0200
> > > From: debian@helgefjell.de
> > > To: shehzadashiq@hotmail.com; pablo@mandrakesoft.com
> > > CC: 555168@bugs.debian.org
> > > Subject: Unclear license situation for (e)glibc locales provided by you
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > > you are listed as contact person/author of the following locale:
> > >
> > > ur_PK
> > >
> > > This locale comes with a statement
> > >
> > > % Distribution and use is free, also
> > > % for commercial purposes.
> > >
> > > Thus it does not allow modification; it is unclear, however, if this
> > > statement was meant as a license.
> > >
> > > As discussed in
> > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=555168 this
> > > locale could strictly speaking not be part of Debian which would be a
> > > great loss. (Currently it is allowed pending investigation).
> > >
> > > To properly resolve this, I would like to ask you the following
> > > question:
> > >
> > > Would you be willing to relicense this locale to a proper license,
> > > e.g. (L)GPL v2 or higher or another free software license of your choice?
> > >
> > > If you have any questions regarding this issue, do not hesitate to
> > > contact me (via the reply-to address set).
> > >
> > > Thanks for helping to resolve this!
> > >
> > > Helge
>
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