Tom "spot" Callaway wrote : > On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 10:37 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Unless I'm mistaken, d4x (downloader for X) is licensed under the > > _original_ Artistic license. As such, it is not acceptable for > > inclusion in Fedora, so should be removed. > > > > I've notified the author a few weeks ago, asking him if he'd be willing > > to switch to the clarified or 2.0 versions of the Artistic license > > (which are acceptable for Fedora), but only got one first answer, > > nothing since... and nothing happened. > > > > So I have no other choice than to retire the package and ask rel-eng to > > remove it from development. > > Before we pull it (which we can do), if you want to try to keep it in > Fedora, send one last email to the upstream maintainer, letting him know > that unless he relicenses it (either to an acceptable Artistic > alternative, or dual licensed with something acceptable), we will be > removing it. I've already sent two such emails over the past few weeks, hoping something would happen, but got no answer to those (hence "only got one first answer", but I could have detailed). I'll send a third now, just in case... who knows, with summer holidays and such. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) - Linux kernel 2.6.22.5-71.fc7 Load : 1.48 1.46 1.51 -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
