Given the lack of specific mention of a different license for debian/* in d/copyright, I think it's fair to say that debian/* was licensed under CPL, whether intended or not. Still, upstream has changed to EPL, and Soeren has refused to relicense his work under EPL (and has offered GPL-3 as an alternative). I might be able to reuse the previous work under CPL, but I'd rather not have a scattering of files in debian under a now-obscure license.
At this point, I've worked on one of the packages to remove all of the previous copyrightable work, except for d/changelog which is left under GPL-3. Unless someone corrects me, it seems mostly harmless to leave the changelog under GPL-3. On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@debian.org> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 01:06:27PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> 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. > > This is a GPL restriction. Since the upstream code isn't GPL, why are > you using a GPL argument about build scripts? -- in theory this would apply > to build scripts for the GPLv3'd debian/* files, but there are none that > I know of :) > >> 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 >> > > -- > .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@debian.org> > : :' : Proud Debian Developer > `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 > `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag -- 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/CAJLyeTkjoU7XDskc_Sfzk+Jy2xe4xsy6iU�pYfr=_yhns...@mail.gmail.com
