Re: [Openrocket-devel] Announcement: End of my role as maintainer of the parts database

[Joe P. <jo...@pf...>]

Rats!  Very sorry to see you're stepping down. Your work has been
invaluable in making OR the valuable resource it is today, and is
very, very much appreciated.

Dave Cook writes:
>Hi everyone,
>
>Hopefully this reaches everyone that needs to know, as this list has been very quiet for the last 18 months.
>
>I would like to announce that after working on it since 2015, I am stepping down from further regular development and maintenance of the parts
>database in github.com/dbcook/openrocket-database.  There really have been very few PRs and issues over the last year, and no difficult ones. 
>Overall I think the database is fairly mature, and for reasons outlined in the readme, continuing comprehensive coverage of the Estes product
>line is infeasible given the offshore manufacturing methods.
>
>At present the OR build pulls directly from my repo as a submodule.  What needs to happen now is for OR to create a fork of my repo in its own
>github account, assign some maintainers and point the build to that fork.  I have no intention of taking my repo down; I'm just letting you know
>to not expect many future updates, and that I may no longer respond to PRs/issues against my repo quickly, or at all.
>
>I'd also like to call attention to a license compliance issue with the packaged installers.  After installation of the OR package (on Mac at
>least), there is no LICENSE file present for either the GPL used by the main OR code base nor the Apache 2.0 for my database.  Both licenses
>require that any distribution must include a copy of the applicable license.  The packaged installer builds need to be modified to include
>copies of both licenses in user-visible locations (i.e. buried in the Mac OpenRocket.app resource bundle is not OK).  I trust that this will be
>fairly easy and can be done for the next release.
>
>I'm sure this handover will trigger at least some discussion and I'll undertake to respond promptly.
>
>Best regards,
>Dave Cook
>NAR 21953 L3
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