On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 18:45:14 -0300 Carlos Henrique Lima Melara wrote: > Hi, folks. Hello Carlos. > > I'm the new maintainer of devtodo and would appreciate an assistance of the > debian-legal on the license matter. As noted, devtodo is licensed under > GPL-2 only, although there is no boilerplate copyright on the source files. Please note that asking upstream to switch from GPL-2 to GPL-2+ is not the only way out from this license incompatibility issue. See my [message] to debian-legal for more information. [message]: <https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2021/01/msg00010.html> Some of these alternative strategies have already been mentioned in the original bug report... > > Taking this into consideration, would a public mail from the upstream to > this bug be enough to change the license to GPL-2+? Or it would be necessary > to add the boilerplate to all source files indicating GPL-2+ licensing? If you are going for option b (ask the copyright holders to re-license the program from GPL-2 to GPL-2+), then the best possible outcome would be to have them add the appropriate boilerplate to all the files. Failing that, a centralized LICENSE or README file placed by the copyright holders could suffice (or even a documented e-mail exchange with all the copyright holders, as a last resort). I hope this helps. Thanks for taking care of this! -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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