On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 09:33:06PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > Hi, > 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 Yes, that's right. Concerning that topic, I've emailed upstream maintainers because the software is said to be in public domain, but file extract.c has a copyright line. > 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. I'm not an expert in licences, that's why I CC-ed debian-legal. I really appreciate your suggestions and, if former maintainers agree, GPL-2+ is the licence I will grant to debian/* files. PS: Please, CC me because I am not in debian-legal mailing list.
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