"that’s the beauty of using GPLv2+ instead of GPLv2: it can be converted to later versions *WITHOUT* any additional permission from the copyright holders”
That was an egregious enough typo that I felt compelled to send another email. I apologize for the noise. On Friday, April 12, 2024 12:48:20 PM MST Soren Stoutner wrote: > As an additional followup, as the original debian/* files were licensed > GPLv2+, if you edit a file you can choose to make your contribution GPLv3+, > which would convert the entire file to GPLv3+. If you end up editing all of > the files in debian/* at least once, you could convert the entire copyright > entry to GPLv3+. > > I can’t do that with Electrum because there is no automatic conversion from > GPLv3+ to Expat. But it is an option that is open to you if you would like to > pursue it. It also isn’t a problem if you decide to leave all your > contributions to debian/* as GPLv2+, as any GPLv2+ file can be contributed to > an upstream GPLv3+ project (that’s the beauty of using GPLv2+ instead of > GPLv2: it can be converted to later versions with any additional permission > from the copyright holders). > > On Friday, April 12, 2024 12:40:55 PM MST Soren Stoutner wrote: > > As an additional comment, I currently maintain Electrum. Upstream is > > licensed > > > Expat. Previous maintainers licensed their debian/* contributions GPLv3+. > > When I took over the package, I started working closely with upstream and > > wanted to contribute patches and other files, like AppSream metainfo to > > them. > > > > To do this, I wanted all of my new contributions to debian/* to be licensed > > under Expat when I was the sole author of the file, and dual licensed under > > GPLv3+ and Expat when I was editing an existing file. I indicated that in > > the following way: > > > > Files: debian/* > > Copyright: 2013-2015 Vasudev Kamath <kamathvasu...@gmail.com> > > > > 2013 Gregor Herrmann <gre...@debian.org> > > 2013-2021 Tristan Seligmann <mithra...@debian.org> > > 2019-2020 Laurent Bigonville <bi...@debian.org> > > 2022 Bastian Germann <b...@debian.org> > > 2022-2024 Soren Stoutner <so...@debian.org> > > > > License: GPL-3+ > > > > Comment: > > The following copyright holders additionally license their > > contributions to debian/* under the Expat license so that > > if all other listed contributors agree it can be relicensed > > under Expat, which is the license used by upstream and makes it > > easier for contributions to be upstreamed when appropriate: > > Soren Stoutner, Bastian Germann. > > > > Files: debian/electrum.1 > > Copyright: 2023-2024 Soren Stoutner <so...@debian.org> > > License: Expat > >
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