Hi,

What should we do next here?

~ Kartik

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 12:56 AM Tino Didriksen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I can answer that...
>
> The official stance of the Apertium project is that when one of our 
> repositories don't clarify the license beyond putting the GPL COPYING file in 
> the repo, then it should be interpreted as the "or any later" version of it 
> to maximize reusability.
>
> The data is often mixed with GPLv3 data at compile time, often by the same 
> authors, but where the GPLv2 stuff just predates wider GPLv3 adoption.
>
> E.g., see email 
> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg06931.html
>  by Francis Tyers for reference. Both Francis Tyers and myself are on the 
> Apertium Project Management Committee ( http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/PMC ).
>
> -- Tino Didriksen
>
> On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 at 20:00, Thorsten Alteholz 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Kartik,
>>
>> COPYING says that the license is GPL-2 only.
>> Please add a note in your debian/copyright why it should be GPL-2+.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>  Thorsten

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