On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 05:52:11PM +0100, Mikolaj Izdebski wrote: > On 10/28/2013 10:25 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > according to > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers > > I'd like to announce that I want to unretire the json package [1], > > which is needed it for closure-compiler [2]. > > > > According to dead.package file, "package was retired on 2012-08-06 due > > to no active maintainers for the package." > > Upstream is dead (incompatibly relicensed) so I don't expect much work > > with updating :) > > > > Re-review request is at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1024114. > > I added a comment to the bug, but I'll repeat it here too. > > I would *strongly* recommend against reviving this package. > > This library used to be free software, but recent releases are non-free > (proprietary software) and as such they cannot be included in Fedora. > All attempts to convince upstream make free releases failed. > > While it would be possible to keep maintaining the old (free) version I > think it's much better for us to migrate to different JSON libraries. OK, I'll try to do migrate. Thank you, and everybody else, for help and advice. Zbyszek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
