Release and License Issue

[remicollet]

Hi,

Looking for this package for downstream distribution, some questions.

• Latest commit is from 2012, is this project still alive ? in this case, probably could be considered as stable and create a 1.0 release ?
• missing LICENSE file which is a good practice for downstream distribution
• License "seems" to be GPLv3, which make this library mostly unusable for most non-GPL project. Can you consider changing to LGPLv3 ? or something which will make it usable ?

Notice this code is used by horde project (in Horde_Stringprep component, which is LGPLv3), So I think we have a licensing issue here.

[znerol]

Thanks for the heads up.

Regarding maintenance state, I'm not currently using this library myself. Quickly skimming over the code I notice that test coverage is terrible. So there is some work to be done before 1.0 can be released.

Looking at how horde uses stringprep, it seems that it would be better if the apply method wouldn't throw an exception but rather return a boolean. Given that this code is not yet released, I'm open to adapt it in a way that benefits other projects which are actually using it.

The project is reusing a Perl script from Libidn, which is dual-GPLv2+|LGPLv3+. Granted that there are currently no contributions from other people to this project I'm free and willing to change it to LGPLv3.

And finally, contributions / co-maintenance is always welcome.

[ralflang]

Horde will use ext-intl directly with a thin layer around it - your code served us well for long but it's no longer the right thing to depend on it. Thank you very much for providing it in the first place.

[znerol]

Is it safe to archive this repo? Or do you prefer if I leave it in this state for some time?

[ralflang]

No, archiving is fine.
See https://github.com/horde/Stringprep/blob/FRAMEWORK_6_0/doc/UPGRADING.md