On 13-Aug-2019, Philippe Ombredanne wrote: > And I made another mistake: Ben Finney <[email protected]> is also > a copyright holder.
Thanks for getting in contact. > You input is welcomed. > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 4:32 PM Philippe Ombredanne > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > […] > > If you are a copyright holder in python-debian, would you agree to > > a relicensing such that it can be used as a library for projects > > using a permissive, non-GPL license? I do not agree to any license change away from strong copyleft. The GPL expresses my intended license for the code: that includes the permission to derive from it free works, but not non-free works. This is unaffected by whether the work is used as a library. GNU GPL is a very good license for library code, because it encourages work built on that code to also respect user freedoms by keeping all derived works free. I believe this was correctly understood by the original copyright holders of the code in this library, when they deliberately chose to release the work under GNU GPL. Regardless, I agree with that license's restrictions today. Weakening the copyleft to allow non-free software to link with this is not permitted. I respectfully decline the request. -- \ “Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for | `\ what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.” | _o__) —Niels Bohr | Ben Finney <[email protected]>
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