Re: foremost package - Licence of debian/* files
Le Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 09:33:06PM +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit :
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:36:22 -0300 Raúl Benencia wrote:
>
> I see [1] that the package is currently public domain, except for a
> couple of files, which are instead copyrighted and released under the
> terms of the GNU GPL v2 or later.
>
> [1] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/f/foremost/current/copyright
>
> Hence I wonder: why would you want to gratuitously restrict the whole
> package to GPL-3+ just because of debian/* ?
> I would suggest licensing debian/* files under GPL-2+ for consistency
> with the packaged work.
Actually, the only evidence I see for api.c and ole.h being GPL-2+
is the statement on Chicago's project page on SourceForge.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chicago/develop
I would rather suggest a license more in line with public domain works, such as
Creative Commons zero license, the SQLite public domain dedication, or the GNU
all-permissive license.
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
http://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices-for-Other-Files.html
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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