Hi Faidon, On Wednesday, 17. March 2010, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > I'm not sure if you follow upstream's list so I'll repeat some stuff > anyway. I did, with half of an eye. :) > Some months ago I contacted some of the original authors about the > licensing mess. The main author, Cengiz Alaettinoglu, who did the work > for ISI/USC back then but has since left, promptly replied and was able > to reach some of his old colleagues who convinced USC's management to a > relicensing. > > All in all, we had a happy ending and all of the weird non-free > licensing, including the stuff that had IBM copyrights(!) have been > cleared and the license has been replaced by a standard MIT one! > > Nick and Shane were aware of this and were holding off the 5.0.0 release > (the cruft-cleanout one) so that it can be released with the new > license. 4.8.6 (= MIT-licensed 4.8.5) was released today, so 5.0.0 will > soon follow. > > However, there are also some bad news: the project has been pronounced > dead at the last RIPE summit by Nick. He has worked on it for over a > year and decided that the software is broken beyond repair -- he's the > one that cleaned up all the cruft. I objected and several others were > not very happy about it; if you're not subscribed, have a look at the > archives for the discussion that followed. > > I'm not sure how to proceed. I think the best course would be to wait a > bit and see before uploading to Debian. I would consider it for post squeeze or just only for experimental. Many thanks and with kind regards, Jan. -- Never write mail to <waja@spamfalle.info>, you have been warned! -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GIT d-- s+: a C+++ UL++++ P+ L+++ E--- W+++ N+++ o++ K++ w--- O M V- PS PE Y++ PGP++ t-- 5 X R tv- b+ DI D+ G++ e++ h---- r+++ y++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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