Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> writes: > "that’s the beauty of using GPLv2+ instead of GPLv2: it can be converted to later versions > *WITHOUT* any additional permission from the copyright holders” > > That was an egregious enough typo that I felt compelled to send another email. I > apologize for the noise. Thanks very much Soren for the detailed explanations! And your suggestions match what Richard suggested as well! I think in this case I'll keep the debian/* under GPL-2+ for now, as in our team we are not recommended to be added to copyright holders with incremental improvements until we have done a more substantial contribution. But I'll keep in mind the possibility to upgrade GPL-2+ to GPL-3+ given their compatibility. Thanks again to you and Richard both! > > On Friday, April 12, 2024 12:48:20 PM MST Soren Stoutner wrote: >> As an additional followup, as the original debian/* files were licensed >> GPLv2+, if you edit a file you can choose to make your contribution GPLv3+, >> which would convert the entire file to GPLv3+. If you end up editing all of >> the files in debian/* at least once, you could convert the entire copyright >> entry to GPLv3+. >> >> I can’t do that with Electrum because there is no automatic conversion from >> GPLv3+ to Expat. But it is an option that is open to you if you would like to >> pursue it. It also isn’t a problem if you decide to leave all your >> contributions to debian/* as GPLv2+, as any GPLv2+ file can be contributed to >> an upstream GPLv3+ project (that’s the beauty of using GPLv2+ instead of >> GPLv2: it can be converted to later versions with any additional permission >> from the copyright holders). >> >> On Friday, April 12, 2024 12:40:55 PM MST Soren Stoutner wrote: >> > As an additional comment, I currently maintain Electrum. Upstream is >> >> licensed >> >> > Expat. Previous maintainers licensed their debian/* contributions GPLv3+. >> > When I took over the package, I started working closely with upstream and >> > wanted to contribute patches and other files, like AppSream metainfo to >> > them. >> > >> > To do this, I wanted all of my new contributions to debian/* to be licensed >> > under Expat when I was the sole author of the file, and dual licensed under >> > GPLv3+ and Expat when I was editing an existing file. I indicated that in >> > the following way: >> > >> > Files: debian/* >> > Copyright: 2013-2015 Vasudev Kamath <kamathvasudev@gmail.com> >> > >> > 2013 Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> >> > 2013-2021 Tristan Seligmann <mithrandi@debian.org> >> > 2019-2020 Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org> >> > 2022 Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org> >> > 2022-2024 Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> >> > >> > License: GPL-3+ >> > >> > Comment: >> > The following copyright holders additionally license their >> > contributions to debian/* under the Expat license so that >> > if all other listed contributors agree it can be relicensed >> > under Expat, which is the license used by upstream and makes it >> > easier for contributions to be upstreamed when appropriate: >> > Soren Stoutner, Bastian Germann. >> > >> > Files: debian/electrum.1 >> > Copyright: 2023-2024 Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> >> > License: Expat >> > -- Xiyue Deng
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