> I just had a discussion with an ftp-master who rejected one of my > packages. The package in question is "missfits". It contains a > directory, src/wcs/ with files that were originally released by Mark > Calabretta under LGPL-2+, but changed by the upstream author (Emmanuel > Bertin) and released in the package under GPL-3+. > > debian/copyright currently mentions only GPL-3+ for the whole package. > > The ftp-master now asked me to add GPL-2+ for these files to > debian/copyright. But I think that this would be wrong, since the files > under src/wcs are not distributable under GPL-2+ (because they contain > GPL-3+ code from Emmanuel Bertin). From the facts you have given, I think that your view is correct.
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