On Sun, 2014-06-29 at 01:00 -0300, Marcio de Souza Oliveira wrote: > >>I put now GPL-2.0+ in debian/copyright > >But that's not what upstream says. They say explicitly “version 2 only > >of the License”. > > >Ping? I can't upload a package with incorrect d/copyright. > > I put now GPL-2.0. > > I was wrong because when I read: > > >License: GPL-2.0 > > This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > > it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > > the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or > > (at your option) any later version. > > >This is inconsistent. The short name says it's GPLv2, but the license > >text says it's GPLv2+. > > I got it wrong. But I see GPLv2(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt) and > and there contains the words "... or (at your option) any later version.". > > If I remove the words "or (at your option) any later version." I would not be modifying the license? Yes, you'd change the license (which'd be a no-no) Instead you write "License: GPL-2.0+" (note the plus) to indicate the "any later version option". (http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/#license-field has a link to http://spdx.org/licenses/ whith commmon licenses and abbreviations) > Regards > -- tobi
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