On the license of python-debian for use as a library

Stefano Zacchiroli zack at upsilon.cc
Tue Aug 13 20:31:01 BST 2019


On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 04:32:26PM +0200, Philippe Ombredanne wrote:
> If you are a copyright holder in python-debian, would you agree to a
> relicensing such that it can be used as a library for projects using a
> permissive, non-GPL license?

Nope, sorry, I'd rather keep my contribution to python-debian under a
GPL, copyleft license.

But I encourage you to relicense any python-debian derived code under
the same license :-)

Cheers
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