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Re: libhdf4 packaging



Hello Johan,

I meant GPLv2 back then, as that was the only GPL version available.
Feel free to update the copyright notices to GPLv2.

Phil.

On Sat, 2014-10-04 at 00:15 +0200, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
> Hello Philippe and Frankie,
> 
> Both of you share some of the copyright in the packaging of libhdf4:
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The original packaging is Copyright 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Philippe Troin
> <phil@fifi.org> and is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
> On Debian systems, the GPL can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
> 
> Packaging has been extensively changed in release 4.2r3 by
> Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org> and released under the
> same terms.
> 
> --
> However, no version of GPL is specified. Since the packaging is old I
> think I can safely assume that Philippe is referring to GPL version 2.
> For the changes by Frankie this is less easy to say.
> 
> Are you ok that I change the license statement to refer to GPL version
> 2? Or GPL version 2 or later?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Johan



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