Thank you for your advice!
It might be a good idea to try and contact the patch authors for these
to ask them to relicense their patches and submit them upstream.
A good way to detect future instances of this issue and report
them to package maintainers would be if the lintian tool were to
automatically check for it. Please file a bug report against lintian
asking for license mismatch detection to be implemented.
I will try to try about these.
Thank you again.
2022年12月2日(金) 17:26 Paul Wise <
[email protected]>:
On Fri, 2022-12-02 at 15:59 +0900, 野崎耕平 wrote:
In researching the licenses of the dependent libraries of the programs I
created,
I noticed that some packages could be non-GPL library become GPL library
by patch.
Generally Debian encourages maintainers to license their packaging
under the same license as upstream, so we can contribute back.
This applies to both GPL projects and non-GPL projects.
So far I have found heimdal and libsqlite packages.
It might be a good idea to try and contact the patch authors for these
to ask them to relicense their patches and submit them upstream.
I feel that this is an unintended license change due to the addition of
the
license description for debian/*.
Agreed.
* The original project is not GPL
* There is a mention in the copyright that debian/* is GPL
* Patches to the library source code exist under debian/patches
This license mismatch issue should apply to all licenses not just the
GPL. A good way to detect future instances of this issue and report
them to package maintainers would be if the lintian tool were to automatically check for it. Please file a bug report against lintian
asking for license mismatch detection to be implemented.
https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
--
bye,
pabs
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
<div dir="ltr">Thank you for your advice!<br><br>> It might be a good idea to try and contact the patch authors for these<br>to ask them to relicense their patches and submit them upstream.<div><br>> A good way to detect future instances of this
issue and report<br>them to package maintainers would be if the lintian tool were to<br>automatically check for it. Please file a bug report against lintian<br>asking for license mismatch detection to be implemented.<br><br>I will try to try about these.<
Thank you again.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">2022年12月2日(金) 17:26 Paul Wise <<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px
0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Fri, 2022-12-02 at 15:59 +0900, 野崎耕平 wrote:<br>
> In researching the licenses of the dependent libraries of the programs I created,<br>
> I noticed that some packages could be non-GPL library become GPL library by patch.<br>
Generally Debian encourages maintainers to license their packaging<br>
under the same license as upstream, so we can contribute back.<br>
This applies to both GPL projects and non-GPL projects.<br>
> So far I have found heimdal and libsqlite packages.<br>
It might be a good idea to try and contact the patch authors for these<br>
to ask them to relicense their patches and submit them upstream.<br>
> I feel that this is an unintended license change due to the addition of the<br>
> license description for debian/*.<br>
Agreed.<br>
> * The original project is not GPL<br>
> * There is a mention in the copyright that debian/* is GPL<br>
> * Patches to the library source code exist under debian/patches<br>
This license mismatch issue should apply to all licenses not just the<br>
GPL. A good way to detect future instances of this issue and report<br>
them to package maintainers would be if the lintian tool were to<br> automatically check for it. Please file a bug report against lintian<br>
asking for license mismatch detection to be implemented. <br>
<a href="
https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting</a><br>
-- <br>
bye,<br>
pabs<br>
<a href="
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise</a><br>
</blockquote></div>
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