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Re: Bug#903092: [RSVP] php-elisp: permission to relicense contributions required from past contributors



On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 16:46:07 -0700 Nicholas D Steeves wrote:

> Dear Ola, Pontus, and Debian Legal team,

Hello!

> 
> It seems Thierry is MIA, and will not be confirming permission to
> relicense his contributions to d/changelog and d/control.  Please let
> me know if the following blocks moving to GPL-3+ debian/* and a
> machine-readable format: 1.0 debian/copyright.  At this point I
> suspect it does, but I am erring on the side of caution.

Do I understand correctly that the content of php-elisp/debian/* is
currently licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 or later?

If this is the case, since GPL-3+ is compatible with GPL-2+, what's
wrong in keeping Thierry's contributions under GPL-2+, while the
remainder of debian/* is migrated to GPL-3+ ?
The effective resulting licensing status for debian/* would still be
GPL-3+, although the debian/copyright file would be slightly less
simple, but, oh well, I guess you could live with that...
Or am I missing anything important?

I hope this helps.
Bye!

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