Hi François, In my point of view, if the last contributors didn't mentioned anything about license they are in according of the public domain. And the additional question i think you don't need to asking to the the authors of debian/* license packing because its in Public Domain.
Em dom, 19 de jul de 2020 12:31, François Mazen <franc...@mzf.fr> escreveu: > Dear Mentors, > > I'm trying to reintroduce the photoprint package [1], and I'm rewriting > the debian/copyright file to comply with dep5. > > The initial license for the files in debian/* folder is "public > domain". Then many other contributors made changes to the debian folder > files, but the copyright file was not updated [2]. So I don't know the > license of these new contributions. Are they in "public domain" by > default? or the package license (GPL-2+)? > > Additional question: for "public domain" files, is it possible to > change license to GPL-2+ without explicitly asking the authors? > > Thanks, > François > > [1]: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/photoprint > [2]: > > https://salsa.debian.org/mzf/photoprint/-/blob/e78dd4b4ee5111ae002b6514cd72fb4f7b9c9e91/debian/copyright > >
