Dear hackage administrators, In the process of packaging setlocale for Debian, we noticed that it is not legally distributable. Lukas Mai seems to be living in germany and german law forbids that authors give up their copyright on something they created. This effectively means that people living in germany cannot publish something in the Public Domain. The problem is that Lukas Mai states that he is doing this, which he is not allowed to do (well he is allowed to state it, but it has no effect), which means the license is defaulting to "all rights reserved", including the right to distribute. We already tried to contact Lukas Mai about this issue. Unfortunately he didn't answer in a week. (This isn't a long time but earlier attempts to contact him didn't yield a result either, so we don't expect an answer from him.) To solve this problem I decided to rewrite the setlocale binding. It is licensed under BSD3-clause (thus doesn't have the problem of being undistributable). I would like to upload it to hackage, but to do this the old setlocale package needs to be removed. Could you please remove setlocale from hackage or give me the rights to upload a newer version of setlocale? My hackage account name is "Kritzefitz" Regards Sven
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