Bug#724738: sflowtool: changing from RFP to ITP
retitle 724738 ITP: sflowtool -- Command line utility for decoding and analyzing sflow data
owner 724738 !
thanks
I made package this back at the time I opened the ITP, and uploaded to mentors,
and asked on DD mailinglist for mentoring. After more than a year though (and
bumping my packaging to follow three upstream version-bumps, adding
init-scripts for autostarting fanout processes as daemons, and more than 10 of
my patches making their way into upstream itself) it then got auto-deleted off
the mentors server. I still maintain the packaging for my own purposes now
(less frequently though), but I'll wait until a DD shows at least some interest
in helping to proceed before I re-upload it.
I suspect most were scared off by the present licensing, but I had been in
discussion with the upstream dev, and he was receptive to the idea of pitching
to the appropriate decision-makers about relicensing if it would get the
package into Debian. They already did that for another package of theirs when
they put it on Sourceforge - "host-sflow". They triple-licensed it under a
choice of their own non-free Sflow License, the Adaptive Public License 1.0 and
the Sun Industry Standards Source License 1.1. As a side-point, I don't think
either of those two free licenses have been DFSG-approved though...
--
Rowan Thorpe
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