Soren Stoutner <so...@debian.org> writes: > 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+. >
Soren, would you please provide evidence for "the original debian/* files were licensed GPLv2+"? It looks to me like: 1. Thomas Koch gained copyright on fixation (ie: automatic in Berne Convention countries) 2. Thomas Koch did not license his work :. Thomas Koch retains "all rights reserved" and our web-mode has never actually been dfsg-free 3. Alternatively one could argue this: The initial packaging is not sufficiently original for debian/* to be copyrightable; however, this is a question for lawyers, because it varies by jurisdiction. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4620875#:~:text=Originality%20is%20a%20pre%2Dcondition,been%20copied%20from%20another%20work. https://academic.oup.com/jiplp/article-pdf/13/8/597/25099746/jpy084.pdf 4. Also, if this is the case than it is *wrong* to declare Koch's copyright and speculative license. In conclusion, Thomas Koch needs to be contacted and a record needs to exist on Debian infrastructure. So either on-list, or on the BTS, or the method I had to use in src:muse-el, which is a package Xiyue Deng (manphiz) maintains and must therefore be familiar with. Regards, Nicholas
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