Re: Has GPL-3+ any conflict with Expat?

[Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi <modaresisofthard@proton.me>]

>Like I mentioned earlier building a package and building a package that’s worth sponsoring are two different things

Who determines what is valuable?
Debian developers act individually, not by Debian Policy.

A Debian developer wouldn't upload my fvs package because the debian dir permission was not expat. No other reason given.

Ans several fonts are in the debian repo that don't build from the source but because of this, DD don't upload my font packages.

I create debian dir, So  I choose its license.
Expat has nooo confilict with gpl-3+

Debian policy. No
Mafia. Yes

-------- Original Message --------
On ۲۰۲۵/۸/۱۵ ۱۶:۰۶, Aryan Karamtoth wrote:

 

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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