Re: Debian Science Policy: First draft online and open for discussion
Hi Sylvestre,
> > - For the license of the packaging work, I recommend to require that
> > its license is not more restrictive than the original source, so that
> > patches do not cause problems when forwarded upstream.
> Maybe it is badly placed in the document but there is a sentence about
> that which says almost the same as you:
> "The license of the packaging work should either match the license of the upstream sources or have a license that is compatible with the upstream license."
This wording does not prevent having GPL'ed patches to send to a
BSD-licenced project, which is something I would personnaly not like to
have to do… This can happen as quickly as having somebody commiting a
patch for a package whose Debian side is GPL'ed because this is the
default licence in the dh_make templates, and then going MIA.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles
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