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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Taking over setlocale

On 7/9/14, 5:56 PM, Carter Schonwald wrote:
a) thats not how taking over maintainer ship works

taking over a package without the maintainers permission requires the maintainer being unreachable  for 6-12 months (or longer)

The guideline there is "a reasonable time". That is much closer to 1 month than 6-12 months. I think one week is a bit short, but overall sven seems to be following the process well, and given the last update date on that package, we should still give a reasonable time to respond, but I would err on the side of brevity if anything.

--Gershom


On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 5:33 PM, 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 keep the CC to Lukas Mai and the debian-haskell list
    intact.

Regards
Sven

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