No copyright & license information

[czchen]

The package does not contain any copyright & license information. Lack of these means it is difficult to make it to Debian. Please help to provide these information to codebase, thanks.

[matthiasbeyer]

It also makes it difficult to get to other distros. I want to package it for NixOS. Would be nice if there would be a LICENSE file or something.

Is this package maintained, though? No update since 2 years... I'm not sure whether this is good news...

[lharding]

With mjheagle8's blessing, I'm taking over maintenance of this project. If you still care about this issue, please reopen it over at my fork.

[czchen]

@lharding Your fork does not enable issue. Please help to enable it so that we can copy this issue.

[lharding]

Done. Sorry about that.

[czchen]

Copy to #1.

[matthiasbeyer]

I'm wondering: Are you actually allowed to overtake maintainership here? What about the license? Did the copyright move?

[pypingou]

@matthiasbeyer copyrights doesn't change if the maintainer change, same for the license, unless all the contributors of the project (who have the copyright) agree to change the license.

[pypingou]

@lharding Thought about taking over the project but without re-locating it? (ie asking @mjheagle8 commit access to this repo)

[matthiasbeyer]

@pypingou So we have 3 people who have to ack the license here.

[pypingou]

@matthiasbeyer if I see the contributors list: https://github.com/lharding/tasknc/graphs/contributors everyone here except for @lharding hasn't contributed.

That being said, as there is no license provided explicitly, this code is open-source but not free (as in FOSS) and thus proprietary. Each contributors keep full right over this code that cannot be modified, re-distributed or anything without their explicit consent.

[matthiasbeyer]

@lharding has contributed!? I have not.

[pypingou]

Well that's what https://github.com/lharding/tasknc/graphs/contributors says

[lharding]

I've added a LICENSE file (MIT) over at my fork.

@pypingou I did ask @mjheagle8 for commit access or transfer of ownership of this repo when he confirmed the transfer of the project to me, but he hasn't responded so I'm proceeding with my original takeover plan. If it'd be helpful for anyone trying to run a distro, I can share his emails to myself and Paul Beckingham confirming transfer of ownership.

@matthiasbeyer I have a few PR's open against this repo, that are already merged in my fork.

[pypingou]

I've added a LICENSE file (MIT) over at my fork.

You actually need to have the explicit agreement of every contributor to re-license their work.

I suggest you open a ticket on your fork asking every contributors to reply there and push the new license once they all did