Xiyue, On Thursday, June 27, 2024 9:50:18 PM MST Xiyue Deng wrote: > Thanks for your reply. I agree it is important to clear this situation. > I think regardless of how the current situation should be interpreted, > contacting Thomas for confirmation about licensing his packaging work > under a GPL compatible license (preferably the same license) would be a > good step forward. I'll try to open a bug and initiate from there.
That is by far the preferred solution.
> Also I have a few questions to help myself understand the situation.
> I'd like to have the following assumption: I intend to believe that when
> Thomas worked on packaging web-mode, he probably forgot to add the
> copyright justification for `debian/*' by mistake, as we see that he did
> it for the package lsp-treemacs[1]. Now, as the upstream uses GPL (v2
> initially, upgraded to v3 later), it requires that all derivative works
> should be covered by the same license, so AIUI the packaging work should
> be covered by GPL by default, but without a clear copyright holder.
> With the current "Files: *" wildcard, it should cover the derivative
> work under `debian/' (though by mistake). So my question is: does that
> really make this code not DFSG-free?
If we are not able to get a response from Thomas (and David), I think there is
enough information to create the following debian/copyright entry:
Files: debian/*
Copyright: 2019-2020 Thomas Koch <tho...@koch.ro>
2019 David Bremner <brem...@debian.org>
License: GPL-2+
The GPL-2+ license comes from the existing debian/copyright file[1], which
states that all files are under the GPL-2+. The copyright holders come from
the changelog[2], and is a list of everyone who edited files in debian/*.
[1] https://sources.debian.org/src/web-mode/17.0.2-1/debian/copyright/
[2] https://sources.debian.org/src/web-mode/17.0.2-1/debian/changelog/
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Soren Stoutner
so...@debian.org
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