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Re: License audit on dpkg source tree



Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > This is something that has been bothering me for a long time, so the
> > other day I sat down and did a full license audit of the sources.
> > 
> > I've cleaned up the license headers and added missing ones, as a side
> > effect ???licensecheck -r dpkg??? works better now. There's still lots of
> > copyright statements missing, I have a patch around to add few, but
> > every file takes time digging, and there's probably more urgent things
> > to tend to. I'd like to get all GPL code unified as GPL-2+,
> > eventually, though.
> > 
> > The remaining issues, which might need asking people around are:
> > 
> > * dselect/methods/multicd/*: GPL-2 only
> > 
> >   The dselect-multicd method from the dpkg-multicd package, states on
> >   its debian/copyright to be based on builtin methods from dselect,
> >   but then has a license of GPL-2 only, while dselect has GPL-2+.
> > 
> > * dselect/methods/Debian/Dselect/Ftp.pm: No header
> >   dselect/methods/ftp/*: GPL (no version)
> > 
> >   The dselect-ftp method from the dpkg-ftp package, states on its
> >   debian/copyright file to be under the GPL-2 only. Ideally this
> >   would have the same terms as the rest of the code base, in case
> >   code needs to be reused for example.
> 
> I'm ccing all the people listed in the copyright. Please respond and
> tell us whether you agree to change the license of your code to "GPLv2 or
> later" instead of the "GPLv2 only"?

I agree.

Regards,

	Joey

-- 
The MS-DOS filesystem is nice for removable media.  -- H. Peter Anvin

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