Re: Copyright if package is taken over?

[Harry Rickards <harry@linux.com>]

Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 03:40:54PM +0100, Harry Rickards a écrit :
> > The Debian packaging is:
> >
> >     Copyright (C) 2007-2009 Gürkan Sengün <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch>
> >     Copyright (C) 2009 Harry Rickards <hrickards@l33tmyst.com>
> >
> > and is licensed under the GPL version 3,
> > see `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.
>
> Hello,
>
> maybe you can check with Gürkan if when he chose the license he really meant to
> be incompatible with GPL-4 the day where it will be released. If not,
> relicensing now to GPL-3+ can help the maintainer of the package the day it the
> GPL is updated again.
>
> Have a nice day,
Ok. Thanks for the advice everyone.

Gurkan, did you mean GPLv3+?

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