[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#775588: Bug#775588: darcs: Missing copyright information

Joachim Breitner nomeata at debian.org
Sun Jan 18 14:09:14 UTC 2015


Hi,

Am Sonntag, den 18.01.2015, 14:49 +0100 schrieb Christian Kastner:
> Perhaps I misunderstood something, but to be clear: some files are
> distributed under the GPL, and some under a BSD license. The combination
> thereof doesn't change this, there is no dual-licensing or
> license-mixing here. 

Well, that’s how the files are distributed to Debian. But that doesn’t
mean that Debian cannot re-license them all under the GPL... At least I
thought that BSD code can generally be relicensed under the GPL.

> To emphasize this, I would
> 
>   * add a new Files: section for the BSD sha2.{c,h} files, and
> 
>     * either create a new Files: section for SHA256.hs, or
> 
>     * merge it with the Files: *, if the referred GPL version is
>       determined to be the same.

Patches welcome. My personal motivation to spend a significant amount of
time with copy’n’paste is low.

(Maybe I should just stay quiet and hope someone else takes care of it.)

Greetings,
Joachim

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