On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 20:06:10 -0400 Gershom Bazerman <gershomb@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/9/14, 5:56 PM, Carter Schonwald wrote: > 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. Greetings, It's now longer than a months ago, that I send the first post about this. I think this is a reasonable time to respond for the maintainer. Are there still any objections or can I now contact admin@hackage.debian.org? Regards Sven > > > > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Sven Bartscher > > <sven.bartscher@weltraumschlangen.de > > <mailto: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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