Dear Paul Wise On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:17:20PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Harald Jenny > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > the package was made by me so yes I could change the license of the whole > > debian directory (minus the upstream patch) to BSD (I guess this is what you > > referred to) but the main question for me is if this is the course of action > > which I should take (versus just keeping a different license for the > > upstream > > patch). > > I would recommend doing it, unless you have a specific reason to not > do it, such as a strong preference for the GNU GPL.
I have attached my new copyright file, is it ok this way? Should I mention the change of the copyright for the debian directory also in the changelog or is this kind of information not relevant? > > -- > bye, > pabs Thanks and kind regards Harald Jenny > > http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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