Hi! On Friday, December 09, 2011 09:15:54 PM Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 12/09/2011 08:46 PM, Mathias Ertl wrote: > > I already joined the mailinglist there and enjoy the spam that comes in > > there every day ;-). I did however file a join-request on their Alioth > > homepage. I can only hope they approve the request. > > I'd suggest sending a private mail to the admins of the project. I am sorry to say that so far I have received no response. > >> Last, why did you choose GPL-3+ for your packaging work, when upstream > >> has chosen a more relaxed BSD 2 clause? > > > > Because I think its a good license. Is that a problem? I am happy to > > choose something different or the same as the package, if there are any > > customs or conventions I am not aware about. > > There's no problems per say, I believe everyone is free to release the work > it does in Debian in the license of its choice if it's DFSG free, but I > just feel > weird to have just a few files needed for the packaging to be more > restrictive > than the ones from the original authors itself. > > Said in another way: your choice of licensing is legally valid inside > Debian, > but it wouldn't be mine. I'd adopt the license of upstream, especially > if it's > the BSD license. IMHO, software with multiple licenses are a pain when > writing debian/copyright files. Ok, So I will leave it at that in the hopes that it won't stop anybody from sponsoring the package. > > That being said, I still look for a sponsor for that package! ;-) > > Please ping me in few days if I didn't get time to review again and nobody > else stood up (I'm going to sleep now, I'm too tired to start packaging > reviews ...). Nobody else stood up, so I'm pinging you again! :-). I am still looking for a sponsor of the package. For easy reference, here is the git-repo: https://git.fsinf.at/apt/php-xml-beautifier ... here is the package on mentors: http://mentors.debian.net/package/php-xml-beautifier and you can check it out with this command: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/php-xml- beautifier/php-xml-beautifier_1.2.2-1.dsc greetings, Mati -- me on twitter: @mathiasertl | soup: http://soup.er.tl I only read plain-text mail! I prefer signed/encrypted mail!
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