Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> (10/01/2011):
> All the code in gpdftext itself is my own and I can relicence to
> GPL-2only but it will mean a new upstream release to clarify each
> source code file and replacing COPYING.
Great. (I guess you could relicense it to GPL-2+ instead, you'd keep
the '+' you've got currently with GPL-3+.)
> I can sort this out over the weekend, if the RT agree to a new
> upstream release (with only the licence changes).
I believe a pointer in debian/{changelog,copyright} “overriding” the
information in COPYING + the sources would be sufficient. No need for
a whole new upstream release to fix this bug.
(I can think of ftpmasters' being happy with an upstream's mail
excerpt in debian/copyright, clarifying the license, or changing it to
make it DFSG-compliant; which was sufficient so that we don't have to
wait for a new upstream release to package stuff.)
I'm not a lawyer, a ftpmaster, or a releaser though.
KiBi.
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