From: Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi <modaresisofthard@proton.me>
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2025 17:24
To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org <debian-mentors@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Has GPL-3+ any conflict with Expat?
> The upstream lucense is expat.
> Can I put the license of debian dir GPL-3+?
> If no, why?
Like I mentioned earlier building a package and building a package that’s worth sponsoring are two different things.
MIT is a permissive license whereas GPL has some protections in place that might not be compatible with MIT.
While nothing’s stopping you from using GPL, it’s generally recommended to use whatever license upstream uses so that you don’t have any license issues down the line.
Regards,
Aryan Karamtoth
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