Bug#818724: RFS: task-spooler/0.7.6-1
On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 12:04:12PM +0300, Alexander Inyukhin wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 05:40:59AM +0000, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> > and btw, having debian/* GPL-2+ technically makes upstream unable to
> > pull patches from debian/patches/*, as GPL-2+ is incompatible with
> > GPL-2 (only).
This is incorrect. GPL-2 and GPL-2+ are compatible, both ways, with the
combined result being effectively GPL-2 but anyone can still pick GPL-2+
parts and use them under GPL-2, GPL-3, GPL-4, GPL-4636467912 and,
unfortunately, AGPL-3 (which I consider a non-free license).
> Isn't that a one-way incompatibility?
> As far as I understand, GPL2+ is a set of licenses including GPL2,
> so GPL2+ code could be used in GPL2-only project.
So can GPL2-only code be used in a GPL2+ project (at the cost of restricting
the result to GPL2-only).
> Anyway, I do not want to restrict use of these patches.
> What license should I use?
GPL-2+ as you currently do. This way upstream can use your patches now, and
will continue to be able even if they relicense to a higher version of GPL
in the future.
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