Bug#817005: RFS: aseqjoy/0.0.1-1 [ITP]
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 08:45:27PM +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> >Fixed. Is possible to have upstream => gpl2 and debian/* => gpl3, true?
>
> this means that it will be impossible to forward patches upstream without manually
> relicensing them.
>
> I personally don't prefer, because only the author of each patch will be able to forward
> it upstream.
It's worse: as the package is built from sources under mutually conflicting
licenses, it is indistributable.
As both the packaging and the only patch come exclusively from you, I'd
simply change the license for debian/* to GPL-2+ (but, see below).
> licensecheck *
> shows the license of some files as GPL-2+ not GPL-2
It looks like there's a mismatch:
README says:
# Copyright 2003 by Alexander K.nig - alex@lisas.de
# License: GPL V2 - see the file COPYING
(COPYING is the text of GPL-2)
but, aseqjoy.c says:
# or (at your option) any later version.
Too bad, while it's the only C source, there's one more copyrightable file,
aseqjoy.1.in, which doesn't embed a license statement and thus is covered by
the README.
So unless you contact the author or rewrite the manpage, the effective
license is GPL-2 only.
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