> > I just had a discussion with an ftp-master who rejected one of my > > packages. The package in question is "missfits". It contains a > > directory, src/wcs/ with files that were originally released by Mark > > Calabretta under LGPL-2+, but changed by the upstream author (Emmanuel > > Bertin) and released in the package under GPL-3+. > > Upstream authors can't change licensing of any files, under any > conditions, ever. > > If I say a file is GPLv2+, it is forever GPLv2+, even if it's combined > with a GPLv3 work, in that case the *files* are still GPLv2+, that other > file is a GPLv3 work, and the *combined work* is distributed under the > terms of the GPLv3, since it satisfies the license of every file in the > combined / derived work.
But there are multiple works being combined into the one file. So some parts of the file are GPLv2+ and other parts of the file are GPLv3. The file as a whole can only be distributed under GPLv3.
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