Hi Ben: On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 12:37 AM Ben Finney <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Thank you for the quick reply and your interest in strong copyleft. If I am not mistaken your contribution to python-debian seems to be limited to one function (8 lines of code excluding comments and documentation) . This was added by Stefano about 10 years ago in this commit [1] Is this correct? [1] https://salsa.debian.org/python-debian-team/python-debian/blob/bc28396d79cde02186ea2a3cb3f5bd65e316bfe1/debian_bundle/deprecation.py -- Cordially Philippe Ombredanne -- https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-python-debian-maint
