Bug#497703: HappyDoc copyright status clarification

[Doug Hellmann <doug.hellmann@gmail.com>]

On Sep 8, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Chris Lamb wrote:

> Hi Doug,

Hi,

> I understand you are the upstream maintainer of HappyDoc.

Yes, that's right.

> This bug is marked "release critical", meaning that the package is not
> releasable in this state and will not ship with the upcoming Lenny  
> release.
>
> Whilst I am aware that you no longer support development of  
> HappyDoc, it
> would be extremely helpful if you could reply to this message  
> (retaining the
> Cc's) with a statement declaring the licence of the HappyDoc source.  
> The
> debian/copyright file could then be modified to reflect this, the bug
> closed, and HappyDoc would ship with Lenny.
>
> Alternatively, if you think Debian should discontinue shipping  
> HappyDoc,
> please let us know your thoughts.

The source for HappyDoc is available under a BSD license.

Since I don't support it any more, and it does not work with some  
language constructs from the newer versions of Python, I'm not sure  
you want to include it any longer.  I'll leave it up to you whether or  
not to pull it out of your release.

I am willing to give commit access to someone else if you want to fix  
the problems with the packaging (or with the language support :-).

Thanks,
Doug