[Pkg-puppet-devel] License for debian/*

Nigel Kersten nigel at explanatorygap.net
Thu Jan 21 03:06:56 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Andrew Pollock <apollock at debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:50:39PM +0100, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
>>
>> We probably need to pick a license for the packaging in debian/*.
>>
>> I'm fine with whatever free or copyleft license used, as long as we keep
>> the packaging and the software we package compatible, license-wise. :)
>>
>> My gut feeling is that using the same license as upstream (GPL-2+, or
>> "GNU General Public License version 2 or later") makes things nice and
>> uncomplicated, so this is what I propose.
>
> I have a slight preference for GPLv2, but I'm happy to go with either.

ditto, although I know upstream are looking to migrate away from GPL
once they've gotten approval from all the contributers.



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