Dear Debian Legal Team, I'm adopting src:muse-el, and the old d/copyright file does not state which license the old debian/* uses. I used "comm" to see what remained after transitioning the package to use dh-elpa, current debhelper and compat, et al, and only the contributions of Michael Olson and myself remain in debian/*. Sean Whitton is working with me to make sure the updated package is very high quality. He made me aware of the issue updating to copyright-format 1.0 when the original debian/* license was undefined. src:muse-el is GPL-3+, with some MIT contributions. debian/* must have been DFSG-free, and were probably GPL-2, GPL-2+, or possibly MIT. I was recently able to contact Michael Olson. Would a signed email from Michael Olson certifying that his contributions to debian/* were of either GPL-2, GPL-2+, or MIT be sufficient to allow an update to src:muse-el/debian/copyright? If so, to whom should I ask him to send that email? The bug associated with this ITA is #844184. By now it's kind of a long read ;-) Sincerely, Nicholas
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