On 2025-08-15 14:25 +0000, Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi wrote:
Like I mentioned earlier building a package and building a package that’s worth sponsoring are two different thingsWho 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.
Whether someone wants to sponsor a package is entirely up to them. So they are within their rights. It is generally best all round to keep the debian/* licence the same as the upstream, but you are quite right that you don't _have_ to. And having a strong belief in copyleft seems like a good reason to contribute your debian work on that basis. I would not mind sponsoring packages where upstream is Expat and the debian/* is GPLv3. It's a reasonable (albeit slightly unhelpful) choice. This illustrates that different DDs will make different choices.
I create debian dir, So I choose its license. Expat has nooo confilict with gpl-3+
Agreed.
Debian policy. No Mafia. Yes
No, it's just individuals making choices. Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware http://wookware.org/
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