Hi Riccardo, I'm glad that you're fine with releasing your contributions under GPL-2+.
I'll send your arguments to debian-legal, and we'll see what they make of them; you might be right. Riley On 24/07/14 07:49, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi Riley, > > the program comes with a "COPYING" file, which standard to contain the > license used. In thiscase, it contains the GPL v2 or later. > > In other words: > 1) the program headers contain reference to the GPL v2 or later > 2) the COPYING file distirbuted with GMastermind contains the GPL v2 or > later text > 3) only the readme file contains a reference to the program being > distributed "GPL v2" without the "or later" clause > > To me it is clear that the intent is the program to be under GPLv2 or > later and that the readme.txt contains a small omission. The source > files and the COPYING file have priority! > > Given this, I already consider all my contributions under the "GPL v2 > or later" clause. > > Riccardo > > On 2014-07-22 09:26:48 +0200 Riley Baird > <bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch> wrote: > >> Hi Riccardo, >> >> Even if you're not the original author, if you've made any modifications >> to the work, you own copyright on them. >> >> For example, Linus Torvalds is not the only copyright holder of Linux; >> the other ~5000 contributors all have copyright on it as well. This is >> why the kernel can't be upgraded to GPL-3, even if Linus wants to. >> >> So, having a statement from you would be helpful. (You are only >> relicensing *your* contributions) >> >> Also, what do you mean by "the COPYING is the full GPL v2 or later"? >> >> Riley > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53d22cb7.9060...@bitmessage.ch
