Fwd: Fwd: Comments regarding castor_1.3.1-1_amd64.changes

[Miguel Landaeta]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Werner Guttmann <werner.guttmann at gmx.net>
Date: Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: Comments regarding castor_1.3.1-1_amd64.changes
To: Miguel Landaeta <miguel at miguel.cc>


Hi Miguel,

I am not sure I can answer this question completely. Let me explain
the context a bit.

Castor was initially developed by a company named 'Intalio', and
subsequently released as open source with a BSD-style license.

In the early years after 2000, more and more employees of Intalio quit
their job, and as far as I know, Intalio sort of vanished.

Myself and a few other committers at that time decided that any new
code contributed should carry an Apache license.

I assume that this explanation doesn't really address your question,
but I could offer to have a word with a contact at Intalio (yes, the
company seems to have been resurrected, but with a completely
different business focus).

Let me know whether I should go about this.

Regards
Werner

On 14.07.2010 17:47, Miguel Landaeta wrote:
>
> Hi Werner,
>
> I am the maintainer of Castor package in Debian.
>
> I already prepared a package and it is almost ready to be included
> officially in the distribution, but before this can happen our FTP
> administrators must approve the package.
>
> Right now, they have a question about Castor license,
> so I'm including below their message with that question. It would
> be appreciated if you can clarify that.
>
> Thanks in advance for your attention,
> Regards,
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Alexander Reichle-Schmehl<ftpmaster at debian.org>
> Date: Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:28 AM
> Subject: Comments regarding castor_1.3.1-1_amd64.changes
> To: Miguel Landaeta<miguel at miguel.cc>, Debian Java Maintainers
> <pkg-java-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Cc: Archive Administrator<installer at ftp-master.debian.org>
>
>
> Hi maintainers!
>
> Regarding the licens of your package "castor", could you please
> clarify, what the following clause exactly means?
>
>> 5. Due credit should be given to the ExoLab Project
>>    (http://www.exolab.org/).
>
>
> Best regards,
>  Alexander
>
>
>
>
>



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