Hi, > > Do I understand this correctly: Software can only be included in > > Debian if it is "GPL v2 or later", and "GPL v2 only" is not enough? > > Well, in general software can be distributed in Debian if it is > DFSG-compatible[1]: both GPL-2 and GPL-3 are so. I'm not asking to > relicense JOSM, but just to make the license clearer.
The problem with all that is that it would be easy if I was the sole author (my stuff is PD anyway); there are numerous others who would, very strictly speaking, have to be contacted - even if it's 99% sure that they'll say "oh well, I don't care". To me it didn't matter until now; it is the Debian folks with *their* guidelines who want to have a very clear understanding, so I am a bit reluctant to trawl through SVN to find out the names of everyone who has contributed, because that work is of no direct use to *me*, it just satisfies the guidelines someone else has introduced for a completely different project. Nothing against you personally, I'm sure you only mean well for the Debian community *and* the OSM community by including our software in Debian. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/josm-dev
