incompatible licenses in the debian directory

2013-09-25 Thread Miles Lubin
Dear debian-legalers, Under the sponsorship of Sébastien Villemot and the Debian science team, I am in the process of adopting the COIN-OR scientific packages for linear programming and extensions (incl. coinutils, coinor-osi, clp, coinor-cbc, etc.). Here's the issue: - Since the last upload,

Re: incompatible licenses in the debian directory

2013-09-25 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:18:58AM -0400, Miles Lubin wrote: Dear debian-legalers, Yo, Miles! - The debian directory had no explicit license mentioned in the copyright file. It was pointed out by Paul Tagliamonte that the Oh yes, I remember this. previous maintainer(s) must agree to the

Re: incompatible licenses in the debian directory

2013-09-25 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:37:12AM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: It's a skitch hazy, but I don't think there's an issue with distributing CC-BY and GPL code in the same tarball -- the only issue is this *MAY* result in GPL issues if *upstream* is GPL, if you've checked out some of the CDDL

Re: incompatible licenses in the debian directory

2013-09-25 Thread Paul Wise
There is something implicit in paultag's mail, I'll try to make it explicit. The new license must not be used for any of the existing files, unless there is a complete rewrite. For example, debian/changelog is likely to get new copyrightable content and having that under the two licenses would not

Re: incompatible licenses in the debian directory

2013-09-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:18:58AM -0400, Miles Lubin a écrit : Here's the issue: - Since the last upload, upstream has switched from the CPL (Common Public License) to the EPL (Eclipse Public License). - The debian directory had no explicit license mentioned in the copyright file. It was