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

[Maximiliano Curia]

¡Hola Philippe!

El 2019-08-13 a las 16:32 +0200, Philippe Ombredanne escribió:
> A while back, I started a thread to discuss the license of
> python-debian on the now defunct pkg-python-debian-discuss list. [1]

> Back then, dann frazier, Enrico Zini, Reinhard Tartler and Stuart
> Prescott all replied they were OK with a license change.
> There are still quite a few copyright holders and contributors that I
> need to reach out to!

> I am trying to complete this now so here is my question:

> 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?

Well, from my point of view, something like:
 try:
  import gpl_code as lib
 except:
  import dummy_code as lib
might be enough to use a GPL python module from a non GPL licensed code, 
without inheriting a new license in your code, but IANAL.

> C. Other contributors
> =====================
> - Maximiliano Curia <maxy at debian.org>

From my side, go ahead and do whatever license change needed for my 
contributed code. In fact, as long as I don't explicly add a license boiler 
plate in my contributed code I giving it to the project, and as such the 
project can decide what to do with it.

Happy hacking,
-- 
"A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do."
-- Greer's Law
Saludos /\/\ /\ >< `/
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