[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#1030840: Bug#1030840: fonts-femkeklaver: relicensing of Debian packaging to 0BSD?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Gioele Barabucci (2023-02-08 09:06:43)
> Dear Leo Antunes, dear Boyuan Yang,
> 
> the Debian packaging of the fonts-femkeklaver package (started by Leo 
> Antunes, modified by Boyuan Yang and me) is currently licensed GPL3+.
> 
> Given the trivial amount of packaging now left (a handful of boilerplate 
> code), would you be OK with relicensing it under 0BSD (ISC without 
> attribution, pretty much public domain)?
> 
> https://opensource.org/licenses/0BSD
> 
> A yes/no answer is enough. I'll take care of the change if you both agree.

Why do you need relicensing of the packaging?

I ask because I maintain several hundred packages, and am genuinely
interested in understanding if someone find my packaging style a
nuisance, and if so, how more specifically.

I generally license y packaging work as strongly copyleft, regardless
of upstream licensing, by the logic that I want to encourage copyleft
licensing while respecting the upstream choice: My packaging does not
"infect" upstream code (if I create patches for upstream code then I am
happy to license _those_ more relaxed), and anyone wanting a
Debian-packaging can freely choose to respect my choice of licensing or
redo packaging for their own independent distribution.


Kind regards,

 - Jonas

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