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Re: [Openrocket-devel] Announcement: End of my role as maintainer of the parts database
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From: Joe P. <jo...@pf...> - 2024-03-21 12:37:13
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We would be more than happy to have you help -- but more importantly I hope the eye surgery is a success. I'll be thinking of you. Stephen Heilman writes: >I helped Dave with some of this I would be glad to help with this. However I an blind rights now waiting on eye surgery next month > >Sent from my T-Mobile 5G Device >Get Outlook for Android >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >From: David Cain via Openrocket-devel <ope...@li...> >Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 4:38:33 PM >To: OpenRocket development mailing list <ope...@li...> >Cc: David Cain <sbl...@ji...> >Subject: Re: [Openrocket-devel] Announcement: End of my role as maintainer of the parts database > >Thanks Dave. > >I too appreciate the resource you've created for the community! > >DC > >On March 20, 2024 4:59:36 PM EDT, Dave Cook <cav...@gm...> wrote: > > Thanks to all of you for the kind words! > > On the license, I think the About menu presentation is enough. I knew about that once and then forgot it when I was dissecting the app > bundle recently for some other reason. > > -Dave > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 1:10 PM Sibo Van Gool <sib...@ho...> wrote: > > Hi Dave, > > I’d like to thank you for what you have gifted OpenRocket and the model rocketry community. Your hard work has saved users countless > hours and has elevated OpenRocket. For that, you have my respect. > > I will create a fork so we can continue your work. We’ll have to take a look at the license issue. > > Cheers, > > Sibo > > From: Dave Cook <cav...@gm...> > Date: Wednesday, 20 March 2024 at 16:34 > To: OpenRocket development mailing list <ope...@li...> > Subject: [Openrocket-devel] Announcement: End of my role as maintainer of the parts database > > 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 >_______________________________________________ >Openrocket-devel mailing list >Ope...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openrocket-devel |
