About the version thing. I asked author which release should I used. He said anyone you want. I said "even the lastest one?". Yes, that's good. So I took the lastest commit as a release. Because it contains some feature I need.
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:26 PM, u <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > thanks for your quick answer. > > Shell Xu: > > Hi, u: > > > > That's very interesting. Let's see what happened one by one. > > > > First of all, source code are not been "deleted". It's just a branch > > called "rm". If you switch branch to master, code is still been there ( > > https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks/tree/master). > > You're correct. My mistake. However this branch has been set as main > branch. > > > Next thing is really interesting. You can find my commit in > repository ( > > > https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks/commit/3b242bee5eb191599a0d051497003127986ea290 > ). > > But if you click "Browse files", and pull to the end. It tunes out at the > > time I did the packaging job, the repository address is " > > https://github.com/clowwindy/shadowsocks/wiki"; (its wiki), and License > is > > MIT. > > Yes, I did the right job at that time. The repository is modified, > > translated to someone else, and license changed. > > ack. Thanks for clarifying this. I actually did not see a release of > this version at all. > > > I followed commit logs, and here is the log which license changed. ( > > > https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks/commit/ce805f0aeaea03646e01b623c4e2185f63a3562f > ). > > The whole project are re-licensed to Apache to protect the name of > > contributors. It's happened far after my work, even after Debian accept > it. > > (according here: https://packages.qa.debian.org/s/shadowsocks.html, it's > > 2014-09-16) In this situation, I think the old code still can be used > under > > MIT, and new code can only be used under Apache. So I should use new > > license if package new one. But I don't have to update package to follow > > the new license. > > Correct. > > > As you might noticed, shadowsocks is a software which designed to > > broken the GFW. So it's not weird that government wanna erase this whole > > project. The main author (clowwindy) was found by police, and have a > little > > conversation. (which we call it "drink tea") He is forbidden to maintain > > the project, even talk about it. So I don't trust any commit after that > > time. (just before 2015-08-20) Because government might inject something > in > > it after that time. > > Thanks for clarifying this. > > > Here is the thing I wanna do. > > > > I'll update the package to version 2.8.2 in stretch. (of course, it's > > not a "release", because the author never planed to release at the time > > been called for "tea". and of course, under Apache License) That will be > > the final version. Any "new" version after that time should been review > > carefully. > > Fair enough. > > > And, I'll remove this project from Debian in next release (after > > stretch). Because we should had something new at that time. (Or > hopefully, > > we can finally get ride of GFW at that time) > > Let's hope so! > > I'll retitle this bug report accordingly then. > > Cheers! > -- 彼節者有間，而刀刃者無厚；以無厚入有間，恢恢乎其於游刃必有餘地矣。 blog: http://shell909090.org/blog/ twitter: @shell909090 <https://twitter.com/shell909090> about.me: http://about.me/shell909090
