Re: Debian Science Policy: First draft online and open for discussion

[Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre.ledru@inria.fr>]

Le mercredi 28 mai 2008 à 18:27 +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit :
> 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
Hu? It does: "have a license that is compatible with the upstream
license" 
Taking your example, the GPL is incompatible with the BSD, then, GPL
should not be the one used for your packaging work.

Sylvestre