Re: Bug#883731: audacious: Debian packaging has incorrect license

2017-12-10 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Francesco, John, and everybody else reading this, On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 11:10:40AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 22:39:41 -0500 Nicholas D Steeves wrote: [...] > Failing to retain the license text in the package distribution is in > fact lack of compliance with the 2-claus

Re: Bug#883731: audacious: Debian packaging has incorrect license

2017-12-10 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 10:36:49AM -0500, John Lindgren wrote: > Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > > Both BSD 3-clause and BSD 2-clause allow relicensing as GPL, thus so > > long as the licensing terms are complied with correctly BSD code can > > perpetually and unidirectionally flow to GPL projects.

Re: Bug#883731: audacious: Debian packaging has incorrect license

2017-12-10 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 18:12:39 -0500 Nicholas D Steeves wrote: [...] > GPL-incompatible 2-clause BSD [...] A nitpick: the 2-clause BSD license is not GPL-incompatible (it's indeed compatible with the GNU GPL). It's just a distinct license with different (and much simpler) wording... -- http://

Re: Bug#883731: audacious: Debian packaging has incorrect license

2017-12-10 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 12:23:47AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 18:12:39 -0500 Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > [...] > > GPL-incompatible 2-clause BSD > [...] > > A nitpick: the 2-clause BSD license is not GPL-incompatible (it's > indeed compatible with the GNU GPL). > It's ju

Re: Bug#883731: audacious: Debian packaging has incorrect license

2017-12-10 Thread John Lindgren
On 12/10/2017 06:12 PM, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > In particular I'm concerned about lines like this from > d/copyright: > > "po/uk.po" is © 2005 Mykola Lynnyk and is distributed under the terms of the > GPL. > > Where the new po/uk.po is GPL-incompatible 2-clause BSD: The line "Copyright (C)