Heya, given I haven't yet heard back from them, I've prepared a draft email to contact:
Adeodato Simó Colin Watson Florian Weimer James Westby asking for the permission to relicense their contributions to debian_support.py under GPLv2+ with OpenSSL exception. You can find the draft below. Unless there are objections, I plan to send the email during the week-end; feedback on the text is welcome. Cheers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Heya, I'm contacting you as you have contributed in the past to the debian_support.py Python module, shipped as part of the python-debian Debian package, to ask for your agreement to change its license. It has been brought to our attention [1] that debian_support.py use the hashlib module from the Python standard library, de facto pulling in code licensed under the OpenSSL license. As debian_support.py itself is licensed under GPLv2 or above, and given that Debian considers the GPL and OpenSSL licenses to be incompatible, this poses a serious problem for the python-debian package. We have currently worked around the problem but, to stay on the safe side and to have a cleaner solution, we would like to relicense debian_support.py under the popular terms of "GNU General Public License version 2 (or above) with OpenSSL exception [2]" --- in machine-readable debian/copyright [3] that would be "GPL-2+ with OpenSSL exception". Do you agree with such a relicensing of your past contributions to debian_support.py? (In case you want to inspect them, you can do so by running "debcheckout python-debian ; cd python-debian ; git log --follow lib/debian/debian_support.py"). If you do agree, can you please follow-up to this mail stating that you do, and ideally taking care of: (a) GPG-signing your email; (b) keeping [email protected] in the loop; and (c) quoting the relevant parts of this email? With many thanks for your cooperation and for your contributions to python-debian! For the python-debian maintainers, Stefano Zacchiroli, [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=747031 [2]: In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give permission to link the code of portions of this program with the OpenSSL library under certain conditions as described in each individual source file, and distribute linked combinations including the two. You must obey the GNU General Public License in all respects for all of the code used other than OpenSSL. If you modify file(s) with this exception, you may extend this exception to your version of the file(s), but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. If you delete this exception statement from all source files in the program, then also delete it here. [3]: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#license-specification -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . [email protected] . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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