[Pkg-samba-maint] license of the packaging

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 23:20 +0200, Ivo De Decker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The debian/copyright file in the samba_4.0 branch in the repo currently lists
> GPL-3 (only) as the license for the packaging, while the upstream samba code is
> licensed as GPL-3+ ('or later').
> 
> I didn't investigate where this difference originated, but it might be simpler
> to keep the license in sync with (or at least not more restrictive than)
> upstream. That way, we avoid issues if upstream would move to a future version
> of the GPL some day (like they did with GPL v3).
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> Obviously a license change would need explicit agreement from all contributers.
> 
> 
> Also, the license file currently list a description of LGPL3+ under GPL3, but
> that should be easy to fix.

This current situation is due to the only available intersection of
licences available when I merged the package.

Andrew Bartlett

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