Bug#754441: GMastermind Relicensing

2014-07-25 Thread Yavor Doganov
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Bug#754441: GMastermind Relicensing

2014-07-25 Thread Riley Baird
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, w

Bug#754441: GMastermind Relicensing

2014-07-23 Thread Riccardo Mottola
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

Bug#754441: GMastermind Relicensing

2014-07-22 Thread Riley Baird
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 upgra

Bug#754441: GMastermind Relicensing

2014-07-20 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Riley, thanks for inquirying. I am not the original author of GMastermind, thus I cannot "relicense" it, if you need that explicit statement, you need to ask Marko Riedel. I see you put it in CC, I do not know if that email address is current though. We just got permissions to incorporate

Bug#754441: GMastermind Relicensing

2014-07-14 Thread Riley Baird
Hi, I'm currently packaging GMastermind for Debian. In the process, it has been discovered that, according to a technical reading of the README, GMastermind is licensed under GPL-2 only (i.e. without "or, at your option, any later version"). However, according to the headers on the source files,