Le Fri, May 29, 2015 at 09:32:12AM +0200, Ole Streicher a écrit : > > 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+. > > debian/copyright currently mentions only GPL-3+ for the whole package. > > The ftp-master now asked me to add GPL-2+ for these files to > debian/copyright. But I think that this would be wrong, since the files > under src/wcs are not distributable under GPL-2+ (because they contain > GPL-3+ code from Emmanuel Bertin). > > Do I miss an important point here?
Hi Ole, I am also surprised by this request (isn't there a typo with a "L" missing in front of "GPL-2+" ?). The README in src/wcs contains: > This directory contains a modified version of the WCSlib V2.2 library by Mark > Calabretta <mcala...@atnf.csiro.au>, released under the GNU Lesser General > Public License. The original version was downloaded from > ftp://ftp.cv.nrao.edu/fits/src/wcs/. See > http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/mcalabre/WCS/wcslib for more details. Here, the author of missfits says that he modified the copy of the WCSlib that he redistributes with the sources of missfits. In addition, he added a GPLv3+ header on top of each file. Unfortunately, WCSlib version 2.2 is so old that I could not find a pristine copy on the Internet to confirm that each file was really modified. If it were me, I would give the benefit of the doubt to the upstream author of missfits, and trust him that if he added a GPLv3+ header, it is because he modified the files, as he says in the README. In that case, the license to be indicated in debian/copyright should be GPLv3+. Have a nice week-end, Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150529231946.gd4...@falafel.plessy.net
