Relicensing progress: etch-ignore possible? (was: Bug#393519: Thailatex upgrade fixes.)
Dear release team,
I'm not sure about your policies in these things, but maybe this
progress already warrants an etch-ignore tag?
"Theppitak Karoonboonyanan" <thep@linux.thai.net> wrote:
> On 10/27/06, Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> wrote:
>
>> Theppitak, do you have any news on the licensing? Just for the record
>> and the archive, here's what you wrote to me in private:
>>
>> ,----
>> | Umm.. I'm currently one of the upstream maintainers, but not the
>> | original author, anyway. And it seems the original author has
>> | lost interest to update it for long (before my team adopted and
>> | maintained it). [Err.. I also need to update such info in
>> | debian/copyright.]
>> |
>> | I'll try my best to contact the original copyright holder, anyway.
>> `----
>
> Currently, I've got a positive response from the original author
> (who is not working for NECTEC, the copyright holder, any more),
> and a verbal agreement from an officer from NECTEC to ask for
> endorsement from the authorized person.
In other words: There is progress, but it's not yet completely clear
whether it will actually end in a free relicensing.
The other RC bug of the package has just been fixed by an upload
sponsored by me.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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