Re: [DebianGIS] Copyright of josm packaging (GPL 2+ vs 3+)?

[Andreas Putzo <andreas@putzo.net>]

On May 10  16:49, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> 
> I am planning to upload a new version of josm, and ran into something
> that surprised me.  josm is licensed GPL v2 and later, while the
> packaging have a different license:
> 
>   Files: debian/*
>   Copyright: Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Andreas Putzo
>              Copyright (c) 2008 Petter Reinholdtsen
>              Copyright (c) 2008 Giovanni Mascellani
>   License: GPL-3+
>    The Debian packaging information is under the GPL, version 3 or later.
>    On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
>    Public License
>    Version 3 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.
> 
> When was it decided to use a different license on the package and the
> packaging?  I must have missed the discussion.  I would prefer it to
> be the same, to avoid any surprises when copying stuff back and forth.
> Any objections to changing the license of the packaging to be the same
> as josm?

Please do. Giovanni also agreed on that and we were merely waiting for
your reply to change the license back to gpl-2+ :)

Cheers,
Andreas