Another issue with the package was also came up recently here: <http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2014-June/023157.html>
Regards, Adam On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Gershom Bazerman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/9/14, 5:56 PM, Carter Schonwald wrote: > > 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) > > > The guideline there is "a reasonable time". That is much closer to 1 month > than 6-12 months. I think one week is a bit short, but overall sven seems to > be following the process well, and given the last update date on that > package, we should still give a reasonable time to respond, but I would err > on the side of brevity if anything. > > --Gershom > > > > 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 >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAHfjoW=oenyurv00-1c38oj7jfjrk2ct6cq9-v_r_fd-sre...@mail.gmail.com
