Re: Missing copyright clause of debian directory

[Richard Laager]

I've only looked at this situation for a total of five minutes prior to writing this email, so take this with a grain of salt. But to help you make forward progress...

Upstream seems to use GPL-3+ (not GPL-3). For example:
https://github.com/fxbois/web-mode/blob/a9d21841224da3295f2dd0a90022f5e435e48046/web-mode.el#L13

The existing copyright says GPL-2+ (not GPL-2).

On 2024-04-10 23:05, Xiyue Deng wrote:

1. whether I can add the new copyright section to cover debian/*, and

I think it is pretty typical to have a debian/* section. And if the licenses differ (see below), then you would _have_ to have separate sections.

2. whether I should use GPL-2 as when the previous maintainer last
worked on this or I can use GPL-3 to match upstream version as well?

So I think you end up with something like this:

Files: *
License: GPL-3+
Copyright: fill in the upstream copyright holders

Files: debian/*
License: GPL-2+
Copyright: previous maintainer, you

--
Richard

If that is what you believe applies to the debian files (which is what debian/copyright says today), then I would keep it as that. GPL-2+ is, of course, compatible with GPL-3+.

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