Dear release team, I'm not sure about your policies in these things, but maybe this progress already warrants an etch-ignore tag?
"Theppitak Karoonboonyanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/27/06, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Theppitak, do you have any news on the licensing? Just for the record >> and the archive, here's what you wrote to me in private: >> >> ,---- >> | Umm.. I'm currently one of the upstream maintainers, but not the >> | original author, anyway. And it seems the original author has >> | lost interest to update it for long (before my team adopted and >> | maintained it). [Err.. I also need to update such info in >> | debian/copyright.] >> | >> | I'll try my best to contact the original copyright holder, anyway. >> `---- > > Currently, I've got a positive response from the original author > (who is not working for NECTEC, the copyright holder, any more), > and a verbal agreement from an officer from NECTEC to ask for > endorsement from the authorized person. In other words: There is progress, but it's not yet completely clear whether it will actually end in a free relicensing. The other RC bug of the package has just been fixed by an upload sponsored by me. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
