Re: copyright on upstream patches
Dear Paul Wise
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:17:20PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Harald Jenny
> <harald@a-little-linux-box.at> wrote:
>
> > the package was made by me so yes I could change the license of the whole
> > debian directory (minus the upstream patch) to BSD (I guess this is what you
> > referred to) but the main question for me is if this is the course of action
> > which I should take (versus just keeping a different license for the upstream
> > patch).
>
> I would recommend doing it, unless you have a specific reason to not
> do it, such as a strong preference for the GNU GPL.
I have attached my new copyright file, is it ok this way? Should I mention the
change of the copyright for the debian directory also in the changelog or is
this kind of information not relevant?
>
> --
> bye,
> pabs
Thanks and kind regards
Harald Jenny
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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