Bradley Bell wrote: > It seems to me that the stuff we put in debian/ constitutes a modification > of the original software, and thus is subject to the terms of the original > license regarding modification and redistribution. i.e. if the original > package is GPL'd, our changes must be GPL also, etc.
There's nothing stopping you from using a different copyright. Many rules files do. (Which brings up a point - most debhelper rules files claim to be GPL copyrighted by me. That's really a bad thing, because the GPL may not be compatable with the package they're in. When I talked about this with Ian Jackson he said that's why he used what he used on his rules files (go dig up an older rules file to see it, I don't have it handy.) Anyway the upshot is if you see GPL copyright by Joey Hess on a rules file and it's a problem I will allow it to be changed to a less restrictive copyright as necessary.) -- see shy jo
