Paul Tagliamonte <paultag <at> debian.org> writes: > So, the way *I* see this is so long as the GPL code isn't being put into > a combined work with anything (e.g. GPL'd patches), it *should* be OK.
Unfortunately, GPLv3 considers build scripts (thus, d/rules plus the input for the declarative dh* commands, plus d/control which is parsed by some, etc.) to be part of the “complete” source code. This means that even the previous maintainer was unable to legally upload the package with debian/* being GPLv3, unless he added an exception. Make out of that, consequences-wise, whatever you want… just saying… there have been precedences of upstream being forced to relicence because they have distributed something they couldn’t under the choices they made themselves. bye, //mirabilos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/loom.20130927t150424-...@post.gmane.org
