On 27 août 2013, at 15:28, Jorge C. Leitão <[email protected]> wrote:
> First, do you think it is worth? Is there any alternative that I'm not aware > of (or as a new feat of Django core)? do you know of anyone that is > maintaining it? I don't know! > Secondly, what are the rules for doing this? I mean, can I just change its > name and open a github rep, along with a pip version and give the respective > credits to the creators? Here's how I would proceed. 1) Have a look at the license. In all cases, you should abide by the license and credit the original authors. Even if you end up rewriting almost entirely a library, you still started from what they had done, and they deserve credit for that. Here, it's the BSD license, which is very permissive. (The README says MIT, but it seems to me that the LICENSE file contains a copy of the BSD license.) Both are all right anyway. You can do almost anything with the code. 2) Look at the network of forks: https://github.com/shrubberysoft/django-picklefield/network. If there's a popular fork, try to get in touch with its author and contribute to that fork. It's in everyone's interest that a new canonical repository emerge. Here, Gintautas Miliauskas' fork appears interesting. Note that Simon Charette (a core dev of Django) chose to fork that one. Furthermore, Gintautas registered the project on PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-picklefield. That makes him the current maintainer of the project and you should attempt to cooperate with him. 3) Generally speaking, if you don't intend to make drastic changes, you can fork the repository and keep the name. It's under your account on GitHub anyway. I hope this helps, -- Aymeric. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
