Hello, I'm packaging Kadu program (www.kadu.net) for Debian and Ubuntu right now. There's a problem with Kadu's license (GPLv2 or later), which conflicts OpenSSL's license. When project started, upstream authors where not aware of the conflict, so they didn't add a proper exception. However, now they're not sure if they can add this exception now. Many contributors have submitted patches over time and, as upstream and I understand, copyright holders for those patches are the contributors. So does Kadu's upstream have to ask authors of all applied patches (which is simply not possible, because there's no contact with many of them any more) for a permission to change the license? Well, they have rights to their patches, but copyright holder for Kadu is Kadu Team (http://www.kadu.net/wiki/index.php/English:Authors). Could someone, please, clarify this?
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