Hi Rolf, On 19.02.2017 22:40, Rolf Leggewie wrote: > Part of the work as maintainer and especially when doing an ITP is to > verify the code is indeed DFSG-free. Personally, I'd have trouble with > ambiguity in the form of "Well, I can't really be certain if the > software is licensed as GPL, LGPL or public domain but since all those > are DFSG-free it should be OK". One should clarify what the license is > and release the ITP only afterwards. > So, Osmo didn't answer yet. I thought a little more about that issue. > "Well, I can't really be certain if the > software is licensed as GPL, LGPL or public domain but since all those > are DFSG-free it should be OK". Actually I think this is totally fine, as long as we can guarantee that it is DSFG-free. But I think, the license _is_ clear (GPL or LGPL may be a little bit unclear and has to be clarified). Maybe I am wrong here, but I think the following is true: Adding an entity to the copyright holders only states that they hold copyright on their contributions to the file. For example if I take some file under GPL, modify it and publish it under the GPL again, it does not give me (nor the original author) the right to publish the modified work under a license that is not GPL-compatible. If "Team audio-recorder" is not a legal entity (what I think it is and FTP masters seem to agree with me), only their contributions become public domain. If Osmo chooses to release his version of the file under GPL and part of it is public domain, the file is finally licensed under GPL. If Osmo holds the full copyright, because the copyright notice does not make any sense, it doesn't matter. So in my opinion the file always has the license Osmo chooses (in this case probably GPLv3), no matter if "Team audio-recorder" is an additional copyright holder or not. By the way, I am not sure if we maybe _have_ to add some copyright notice for those who actually contributed to audio-recorder. So I want to propose this: - I see that the GPL/LGPL issue is fixed. - We leave the copyright notice to "Team audio-recorder" as it is. - We could add a note like "as stated in AUTHORS file" and add a list to that file, who is part of "Team audio-recorder" from launchpad. - Or add a note "as listed at https://launchpad.net/~audio-recorder/+members ". - I remove debian/clean and --with autoreconf . - While all of this is in progress I have a look at the dependencies. Then (in my opinion) we should be ready to upload. Please let me know what you think. Viele Grüße David
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