Re: GPL for package under MIT license upstream; repack?
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Gard Spreemann wrote:
>> A package I maintain (src:gudhi) was mostly under GPL-3+ up to and
>> including the current version in the archives. Since then, upstream has
>> switched to an MIT license, but with the caveat that many parts of the
>> code has GPL dependencies and that "for practical purposes this code is
>> GPL-3 for the user" [1].
>>
>> Instead of having to carefully figure out precisely which parts of the
>> code should be considered GPL for the Debian package, I'm tempted to
>> consider the whole codebase GPL for this purpose.
>>
>> Does this sound sane? Are there some particular steps I should follow?
>> Should I create a Debian repack of the source where every file's
>> copyright header reflects the above, or do I only need to do this for
>> (header) files included in the binary packages? Or does it suffice for
>> d/copyright to reflect it?
>
> I don't think you need to (or even should) change the licence notices on
> individual files.
But if I don't even change this in the header files (installed with
libgudhi-dev), isn't there a significant risk that I will mislead Debian
users into thinking that they may use every part of the GUDHI library
under the MIT?
Best,
Gard
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