On Fri, 2022-12-02 at 15:59 +0900, 野崎耕平 wrote: > 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. Generally Debian encourages maintainers to license their packaging under the same license as upstream, so we can contribute back. This applies to both GPL projects and non-GPL projects. > So far I have found heimdal and libsqlite packages. It might be a good idea to try and contact the patch authors for these to ask them to relicense their patches and submit them upstream. > I feel that this is an unintended license change due to the addition of the > license description for debian/*. Agreed. > * 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 This license mismatch issue should apply to all licenses not just the GPL. A good way to detect future instances of this issue and report them to package maintainers would be if the lintian tool were to automatically check for it. Please file a bug report against lintian asking for license mismatch detection to be implemented. https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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