On Fri, 2022-12-02 at 15:59 +0900, 野崎耕平 wrote: > In researching the licenses of the dependent libraries of the programs I > created, > I noticed that some packages could be non-GPL library become GPL library by > patch.
Generally Debian encourages maintainers to license their packaging under the same license as upstream, so we can contribute back. This applies to both GPL projects and non-GPL projects. > So far I have found heimdal and libsqlite packages. It might be a good idea to try and contact the patch authors for these to ask them to relicense their patches and submit them upstream. > I feel that this is an unintended license change due to the addition of the > license description for debian/*. Agreed. > * The original project is not GPL > * There is a mention in the copyright that debian/* is GPL > * Patches to the library source code exist under debian/patches This license mismatch issue should apply to all licenses not just the GPL. A good way to detect future instances of this issue and report them to package maintainers would be if the lintian tool were to automatically check for it. Please file a bug report against lintian asking for license mismatch detection to be implemented. https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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