request-tracker3: licence problem

[Andrew Stribblehill <a.d.stribblehill@durham.ac.uk>]

Regarding the 3rd paragraph of the licence in README and elsewhere as
discussed previously on debian-legal:

# BEGIN LICENSE BLOCK
...
# Unless otherwise specified, all modifications, corrections or
# extensions to this work which alter its source code become the
# property of Best Practical Solutions, LLC when submitted for
# inclusion in the work.
#
# END LICENSE BLOCK

This is appended to the GPL v2 which says in 2b, 

    b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
    whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
    part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
    parties under the terms of this License.

By "the work" (from the README) we must assume it refers to Best
Practical's distribution of RT3. Hence, a fork which must also be
licenced under the same terms as the original must preserve README
para 3 verbatim. In the forked version, "the work" refers to _itself_
not the orignal. This requires one to give copyright to Best
Practical upon modification to the fork. The GPL is incompatible with
this.

The fix to this problem is to move the line, '# END LICENSE BLOCK'
above paragraph 3. This makes it clear that it is a note about
modification to Best Practical's original only and need not be
followed in the event of a fork.

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