Crypt_RC4 and Math_Base*

Resending for the same reason Stefan did. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson <helgith@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:25 PM Subject: Re: Crypt_RC4 and Math_Basex To: Stefan Walk <et@php.net> Cc: PEAR-DEV <pear-dev@lists.php.net> Hi, On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Stefan Walk <et@php.net> wrote: > On Sunday 23 March 2008 20:39:22 Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > Walter Hop was in contact with David Mertens the maintainer of > > Payment_Clieop about taking the package over, David agreed to that and > also > > told him that he'd like someone else to take over Crypt_RC4 and > Math_Basex > > if possible, so if anyone wants to take over those packages then please > go > > ahead! :) > > > > He also noted that he'd be fine with any kind of license changes, Stefan > > Walk did some changes in the Math package so we have to hear from him > (want > > to take over the package Stefan ? :)) and Klaus did a commit to RC4 > (Want > > to take over the package Klaus ? :D) > > > > Anyway I just wanted to give people heads up and hopefully we can find > new > > maintainers for those packages. > > > > Regards > > Helgi > > What licenses did you have in mind? (Just curious, I'm fine with the > licenses > in the list of suitable licenses PEAR) ... and regarding taking over: > Well, > that package is feature-complete and doesn't seem bug-ridden, so i could > take > it, but don't expect new releases if there aren't bugreports ;) > new BSD (the 2 clause one) or MIT always sound the best to me :-P PHP license is just too controversial Thanks for volunteering ;) Added you as lead, I expect to see only one release of this package, license change if fully agreed on (seems that way for you and dave) and the package.xml upgrade, pear convert + adding ya self as dev, sounds easy enough Only other feature I could possible imagine is adding support for big_int ( pecl.php.net/big_int) but it's up to you. Lemme know if you need any assistance (= - Helgi