Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines
On 2009-06-16, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Charles Plessy<plessy@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> The dh_make template for debian/copyright induces many developers to put their
>> packaging work under the GPL, and I have already seen packages whose license is
>> otherwise BSD-ish with such patches. If the maintainer suddenly goes MIA and
>> the patch is non-trivial, then in theory if we want to respect what is written,
>> we are stuck with a GPL'ed patch. Therefore, we have an optional License field
>> to make things crystal clear if necessary.
>
> Sounds like dh_make needs a bug report about the default packagaging
> license, could you file one?
There is several, and it just got changed to gplv3.
/Sune
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