On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:33:25AM +0100, John Marino wrote: > It's been a few days and there's been no response to this. > Should I assume that tabthorpe@ read this but is not prepared to review > his work?
There is an old adage about assumptions, I am sure you know what it is. Maybe I am just ignoring you. Maybe, just maybe, my mail system has been sideways for a week, and this is the first time I have been able to sit down and properly catch up on emails. You decide what answer suits you best. > > if that is the case, what is the step forward here? All this license > stuff is a black box to me and I'd really like to see someone designated > as the license "guru" (and similarly a legal guru) to give definite > answers to questions like these. I think that nobody is fully > comfortable with this and everyone expects somebody else to take action. > > I would like a ruling on LPPL10 very soon as it potentially affects many > important tex ports. Who is in a position to make the call? I hesitate > to mail to portmgr@ because my last 3-4 topics have never been resolved > and mostly ignored by them as a group, so saying "send a message to > portmgr@" is equivalent to telling me to send it to a black hole. > (Hopefully with the turnover it's less like this in the future but so > far it seems the same as always) > > I'm not really trying to be provocative but there are a number of > "somebody really should fix that" issues going around but the fixes > aren't getting organized so in the end nothing happens (again, I think > this is do to everyone expecting somebody to organize/lead the effort > before they jump in) > > Regards, > John > Long story short, I have been extremely distracted by life outside of FreeBSD, as a result I will be stepping down from my responsibilities later this spring, as I have not been able to deal with everything on my plate. If you would like to take over the licensing stuff, I will be happy to assign your name to it. Thomas -- Thomas Abthorpe | FreeBSD Committer [email protected] | http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe
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