| 2012-01-05 17:08:29 |
Fabián Rodríguez |
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The universe/web repository includes sql-ledger. ledgersmb is a fork of this project which was initially formed to address some security issues that the primary developer of sql-ledger was ignoring.
The leader of the sql-ledger project has also demonstrated a lack of understanding of FOSS. Earlier this year, he attempted to change the license of his project retroactively from the GPL to a license that he wrote. Worse still, he did so without notifying other contributors or end users. One history of the incident can be read on Slashdot:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/15/1759254&from=rss
ledgersmb has gained a great deal of momentum. It is currently ranked 376th on SourceForge. A debian package already exists on the download page of the website:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ledger-smb/deb-prereq-1.2.8.tar.gz?modtime=1190837927&big_mirror=0
I respectfully submit that this package deserves to be included in the universe repository even more than it parent does.
Thank you. |
The universe/web repository includes sql-ledger. ledgersmb is a fork of this project which was initially formed to address some security issues that the primary developer of sql-ledger was ignoring.
The leader of the sql-ledger project has also demonstrated a lack of understanding of FOSS. Earlier this year, he attempted to change the license of his project retroactively from the GPL to a license that he wrote. Worse still, he did so without notifying other contributors or end users. One history of the incident can be read on Slashdot:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/15/1759254&from=rss
ledgersmb has gained a great deal of momentum. It is currently ranked 376th on SourceForge.
Debian packages exist on the download page of the website (1.3.9 as of Jan-2012):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ledger-smb/files/ledgersmb/
As noted in comment #11, packages for 1.3 are also available here:
http://www.getdeb.net/software/ledgersmb
I respectfully submit that this package deserves to be included in the universe repository even more than it parent does.
Thank you. |
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