[Pkg-clamav-devel] licensing/copyright of debian directory

Andreas Cadhalpun andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com
Thu Jul 17 22:17:38 UTC 2014


On 17.07.2014 20:51, Stephen Gran wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This one time, at band camp, Andreas Cadhalpun said:
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> On 13.07.2014 21:49, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>>> On Sunday, July 13, 2014 14:49:12 Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
>>>> I converted clamav's debian/copyright to the DEP-5 format and also
>>>> updated it.
>>>>
>>>> But I don't know what license/copyright should be mentioned for the
>>>> debian directory. (Only the clamav-config.1 man page has an explicit
>>>> license.)
>>>>
>>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> I would view it as under the same license as the predominate license of the
>>> package, but sgran is probably the one that should say since it's mostly his
>>> work.
>>
>> Do you concur with Scott's view, or should debian/copyright mention
>> a different license (than GPL-2) for the debian directory (like
>> GPL-2+, under which you licensed the clamav-config.1 man page)?
>
> I have no strong preference.  GPL-2 is fine with me, but if you are
> inclined towards GPL-2+, that's also ok.

Thanks for the quick answer.
I went for GPL-2+, because it's simpler if the whole debian directory 
has the same license.

Best regards,
Andreas



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