Hi Francesco, Thank you for your reply, and sorry for the delay in my own. Reply follows inline. On Sat, Feb 02, 2019 at 10:18:39AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > 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! > Yes, that does help, thank you. And yes, an extra stanza and license in d/copyright is nothing compared to doing a manual copyright check of an old package not in VCS, without the help of 'git blame'. Please see the last paragraph of my last message in this thread for a proposal that would save everyone time working through stuff like this. Cheers, Nicholas
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