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Re: New package python-instagram



Hello Elena,

thanks for your comments.

Am Freitag, den 21.11.2014, 13:14 +0100 schrieb Elena ``of Valhalla'':
> On 2014-11-21 at 12:33:58 +0100, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote:
> > >   - it's simpler if your packaging has the same license as he upstream
> > >     code. Here in particular your license (GPL3) is less permissive
> > >     than upstream's (BSD3) so it can causes problems I guess.
> > 
> > I always use GLP-3+ for debian/* and set the license of debian/patches/*
> > to the license of the source file(s). So I don't see any problems.
> 
> Wouldn't that means that the debian package can only be distributed/used 
> under GPL-3+, and thus e.g. a library can't be linked from / used 
> in something with a noncompatible license (including GPL-2), even if 
> the upstream program allowed it?
> 
> (Assuming that there is something copyrightable in debian/ minus
> debian/patches/, and for other packages that the upstream license 
> was compatible with GPL-3+ in the first place)
> 

I think not. The same issue I had some times ago on d-mentors[1][2].


> -- 
> Elena ``of Valhalla''
> 
> 

CU
Jörg


[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2014/09/msg00631.html
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2014/10/msg00000.html

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