[What follows is a reply to a message only sent to the mailing list debian-desktop: https://lists.debian.org/debian-desktop/2014/12/msg00046.html ] On Sun, 07 Dec 2014 19:32:40 +0100 Aurélien COUDERC wrote: > Le 06/12/2014 17:10, Francesco Poli (wintermute) a écrit : > > Therefore, I prepared the attached patch for the copyright file. > > Please apply it as soon as possible, provided that you agree with it, > > of course. > Sure. Thanks! > > A questions though : > Could you comment on the rationale for keeping the old license − all the > « used to be released under the following terms » section ? > Does it give any better license compatibility ? Yes, it does. It avoids the license incompatibility issues of the previous GPL-v2-only themes which are based on the Debian "Open Use" Logo (without the "Debian" label). See for instance the Joy theme... [...] > > I think we have to ask Juliette to add the "or later" option to the > > dual-license: if she dual-licenses her theme under the GNU GPL v2 or > > later, we may dodge the incompatibility issue. [...] > I think Juliette is mainly interested in getting Lines integrated into > Debian, so I hope she’ll be fine. > @Juliette would it be OK for you to add « or later » to the license > statement on the wiki like : > GNU GPL v2 or later at user’s choice Since Juliette has already agreed to such license addition, I think this part of the bug report can be considered solved, as long as you modify the debian/copyright file accordingly. By the way, thanks again for your prompt reaction, Juliette! -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ fsck is a four letter word... ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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