[ Nicholas D Steeves ] > Hi Eric! > > Eric Evans <eev...@debian.org> writes: > > > This is now a blocker on a recent upstream release of > > golang-github-gocql-gocql as well. I understand the argument about > > excluding test data, but there is probably a point at which users would be > > better served by a golang-github-pierrec-lz4.v4 without (complete) test > > coverage, than they would be without syncthing, or a modern gocql driver. > > > > I agree 100%. > > > Perhaps we move forward with a repackaged upstream tarball while waiting > > for upstream to fix these issues? > > > > I did this 06 June 2022, where it waited for review until 06 Oct and was > rejected with specious rationale--namely that a Go reimplementation of > the C reference implementation of xxHash was a derived work under the > license of the reference implementation. This is contrary to Debian > expectations, contrary to the consensus of the debian-legal mailing list > (speculating about license is a liability), and contrary to legal > precedent established in American courts (algorithms are patentable but > not copyrightable, APIs are neither)... The ftpmaster reviewing this > package also expected me to misattribute the Go reimplementation to the > author of the reference implementation, under the BSD-2-clause license > of the reference implementation. All of this should be archived on the > Debian Golang mailing list.
Do you have a link to this discussion? Thanks! -- Eric Evans eev...@debian.org
