a) thats not how taking over maintainer ship works b) http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Taking_over_a_package
taking over a package without the maintainers permission requires the maintainer being unreachable for 6-12 months (or longer) On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Sven Bartscher < [email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I would like to take over the setlocale package. Following the steps > described on http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Taking_over_a_package I > need to state my intention on a public forum. > > The original author (Lukas Mai) published his package in the Public > Domain. This would be fine, but the Author seems to be living in > Germany. The problem with that is that in Germany an author is not > allowed to give up his copyright in this way. This means the licensing > of the package defaults to "All rights reserved", making the package > undistributable. > > I already tried to contact the author about this problem, but he didn't > respond in a week. This isn't a very long time, but I didn't get an > answer on past attempts to contact him (this was at least a month, but > probably more, ago). > > To solve this problem, I rewrote the setlocale binding with the same API > under the BSD3-clause. > > PS: Please keep the CC to Lukas Mai and the debian-haskell list > intact. > > Regards > Sven > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >
