Re: GPL v3?

To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: GPL v3?
From: John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:59:23 -0500
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20070403024020.GA10316@localhost> (Michael Pobega's message of "Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:40:20 -0400")
References: <[🔎] 20070403022601.GA10308@titan> <[🔎] 20070403024020.GA10316@localhost>

> I'm not one to say if Debian will convert, but I'm pretty sure it be
> mostly beneficial if they do.

"Debian" can't "convert".  The copyrights in most packages are owned by the
upstream authors.  The copyrights in native packages such as Pppconfig are
owned by the individual DDs who wrote them.

> I'd like to know what the more knowledgeable people here would have to
> say about the GPLv3...

It's appalling, but there is nothing to be done.
-- 
John Hasler

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