Bug#875265: RFS: rednotebook/2.2-1 [ITP] [ITA] -- A cross-platform journal
On Tue, 2017-09-12 at 16:37 +0100, Phil Wyett wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-09-12 at 11:49 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 04:13:20AM +0100, Phil Wyett wrote:
> > > > Why are you skipping tests?
> >
> > Hmm?
> >
>
> I reserve comment until I have sought and had feedback from elsewhere.
>
> > > > It seems that the package combines incompatible licenses (GPL-2 and
> > > > GPL-3+)?
> > >
> > > To address the license issue. The upstream author used the file concerned
> > > prior
> > > to file being changed to GPL-2+. For reference, git commit for change to
> > > GPL-2+.
> > >
> > > https://github.com/txt2tags/txt2tags/commit/716debb6ae7996e21201a74cfa6a30
> > > cb
> > > 8b25
> > > 32fe
> >
> > If the code in rednotebook was copied before the license change then it's
> > under GPL-2 only and you cannot change the license header. Or did you mean
> > something else?
> >
>
> Sorry, I may have not explained this as fully as I should.
>
> The rednotebook upstream author added txt2tags.py and then GPL-2 license data
> to
> his project prior to the txt2tags author changing his licensing to GPL-2+
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