About debian/patches/* licenses
Hi,
In researching the licenses of the dependent libraries of the programs I created,
I noticed that some packages could be non-GPL library become GPL library by patch.
* The original project is not GPL
* There is a mention in the copyright that debian/* is GPL
* Patches to the library source code exist under debian/patches
So far I have found heimdal and libsqlite packages.
I feel that this is an unintended license change due to the addition of the
license description for debian/*.
Many projects are applying GPL2+ to debian/*, is there any recommendation?
Personally, I think there are fewer unintended accidents if LGPL is applied.
Package maintainers are encouraged to consider this...!
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