On Wed, 6 May 2009 20:44:49 -0400 Andrew wrote: > I have a more general question on debian/copyright. Obviously all of > the above needs to be resolved, but upstream has mentioned in the past > that they are simply interested in having a free license and are not > tied to GPL-3. So I wonder if they were to relicense as GPL-2 if > "Files: *" would then be acceptable as their original work and icons > coming from gnome would both be GPL-2 and icons coming from tango are > in the public domain, explicitly giving up copyright and including the > following in the dedication: > > | Dedicator recognizes that, once placed in the public domain, the Work > | may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified, > | built upon, or otherwise exploited by anyone for any purpose, commercial > | or non-commercial, and in any way, including by methods that have not > | yet been invented or conceived. > > Does that imply they can be relicensed?
If everything would be in the Public Domain: yes, that would work as far I can see (I'm not a licensing guru). But it won't work with GPL-* as this does not drop the copyright, so you have to mention the copyright holders by name. -- Bruce Schneier Fact Number 384: Bruce Schneier once beat an asymmetric cipher into symmetry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
