FYI ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ali Mezgani <ali.mezg...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 18:16 Subject: Re: Public domain license question To: Thiago Andrade <andr...@debian.org>
Hello, The correct process is asking the author or the upstream to set a license. After that you should repacked the software for any help on that take a quick look at: https://link.medium.com/sxhJRwWKf8 Regards, On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 17:38 Thiago Andrade <andr...@debian.org> wrote: > 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 >> >>
