pd-moonlib_0.2-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 02:09:44PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 12:51 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 12:08:20AM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner 
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >Ok, I updated the debian/copyright and pushed the changes to 
>> >git.debian.org.  Its ready for re-upload.
>> >
>> >I just wanted to add that the previous condition was legal, LGPL-2.1 
>> >files can be incorporated into a GPL-2 project, so it was correct to 
>> >say that the whole project could be used under the GPL-2.  It is not 
>> >correct to say that the whole library could be used under the 
>> >LGPL-2.1 though, only some of the files, if used in isolation.
>>
>> Legal, yes: The licenses are indeed compatible.
>>
>> The issue, though, is about Policy compliance: §4.5 requires 
>> including "verbatim" copies of licensing - meaning that even if we 
>> legally are allowed to relicense under different compatible terms, we 
>> limit ourselves to only _reuse_ upstream licensing.
>
>The library as a whole is licensed using GPL-2 by upstream in the 
>LICENSE.txt file.  The relicensing was done upstream.
>
>More info is good, no argument there, but rejecting the package seems 
>harsh.

I disagree.  And I suspect that you missed my point:

Debian Policy §4.5 concerns each single piece of code that we 
redistribute - not upstream groupings of code.

It is perfectly alright for upstream to treat it all as licensed 
together - but really the individual parts are still licensed 
(compatible but) differently, and this is what must be documented for 
Debian redistribution.


...at least as I interpret it, which seems similar to that of 
ftpmasters.  If you disagree with the interpretation of Debian Policy, 
then you/we should probably move this conversation to a more appropriate 
list discussing that.



Hope that helps.

  - Jonas

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