On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 18:42:11 +0300 Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 01:47:34 +0200 Bastian Germann <b...@debian.org> wrote:
> The debian/ directory including debian/patches is currently licensed under
GPL-3+.
> As the patches are not exempt from that license the resulting binaries have
to comply with GPL-3+ as well.
> This causes a problem for reverse dependencies that have incompatible
licenses, e.g., monero includes files
> licensed under RSA-MD.
Umh. Personally I don't care at all about which license to use for my work.
And while quite some code in debian/ is written by me, it is based on prior
work there, and not everything is mine. Patches are mine though.
> Would you please consider relicensing at least debian/patches?
I wonder how this can be done for the other parts...
I've added entry for d/patches/* for now.
Hi Michael,
Thanks, but GPL-2 has the same problem in this context as GPL-3+, i.e.,
it does not allow any additional requirements on code combined with it.
Of the already existing licenses in d/copyright I would suggest ISC.
Thanks for your consideration.
Bastian
