Short note for everyone who got this through the debian-haskell list: This mail was rejected by the haskell-cafe list. So please don't wonder when I will send a similar mail anytime soon. Has anyone an idea why this could have been rejected? Could that be because I'm not subscribed to it? Regards Sven On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 15:41:00 +0200 Sven Bartscher <sven.bartscher@weltraumschlangen.de> wrote: > Greetings, > > I would like to take over the setlocale package. Following the steps > described on http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Taking_over_a_package I > need to state my intention on a public forum. > > The original author (Lukas Mai) published his package in the Public > Domain. This would be fine, but the Author seems to be living in > Germany. The problem with that is that in Germany an author is not > allowed to give up his copyright in this way. This means the licensing > of the package defaults to "All rights reserved", making the package > undistributable. > > I already tried to contact the author about this problem, but he didn't > respond in a week. This isn't a very long time, but I didn't get an > answer on past attempts to contact him (this was at least a month, but > probably more, ago). > > To solve this problem, I rewrote the setlocale binding with the same API > under the BSD3-clause. > > PS: Please CC me, since I'm not subscribed to the list. > Please also keep the CC to Lukas Mai and the debian-haskell list > intact. > > Regards > Sven
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