Dear FTP-Masters, Am Donnerstag, den 03.07.2014, 15:29 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner: > Am Donnerstag, den 03.07.2014, 15:14 +0200 schrieb Sven Bartscher: > > On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 07:48:22 +0200 > > Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> wrote: > > > we have trouble getting your package into Debian. The easiest would be > > > if you could re-upload your package to hackage with a more standard > > > license, such as the ubiquitous BSD license that everyone else uses in > > > Haskell. Would that be possible? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Joachim > > > > I already contacted Lukas about this issue. I think I should have noted > > this on the list, sorry for not doing so. > > > > Unfortunately, my attempts to contact Lukas in the past (It was a > > general note, stating that I'm going to package his library) didn't get > > any response. So my hopes, that he will answer, aren't very high. > > hmm, tricky then. I wonder how copyrightable the code, which is > basically just the file > http://hdiff.luite.com/cgit/setlocale/tree/System/Locale/SetLocale.hsc > actually is. One could argue that it is just the obvious interfacing > code required to make things (here, Haskell and locales) interoperable > and we hence would not need a license after all. > > I mean: If this could were posted as an answer on stackoverflow and some > projects uses it, would we then reject the project because of that? > > Thorsten, do you have some advise how to proceed there? setlocale is a dependency of the gettext bindings of Haskell, so I’d like to hear you your advice on this. How do we proceed? Can’t we rely on the (obvious) intention of the original author? Thanks, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: F0FBF51F JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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