[Python-apps-team] Bug#970863: nagstamon: Correct GPL-2 in copyright to GPL-2+

Bastian Germann bastiangermann at fishpost.de
Thu Oct 8 12:16:37 BST 2020


On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 16:34:05 +0200 Bastian Germann
<bastiangermann at fishpost.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 15:33:08 +0200 Bastian Germann
> <bastiangermann at fishpost.de> wrote:
> > Source: nagstamon
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Please correct the copyright file to say GPL-2+ (which is the package's
> > license) instead of GPL-2 (only). This has an impact on the package
> > because it is a derivative work of pyqt5, which is GPL-3 licensed and
> > thus incompatible with GPL-2 only.
> 
> I see that debian/* are amongst the GPL-2 only licensed files.
> Carl and Moritz, would you please consider relicensing to GPL-2+? That
> will be necessary at least for the patches.
> 
> Also, Nagstamon/Servers/Multisite.py needs more investigation. Does the
> checkmk project allow its distribution under GPL-3 as well? I did not
> find the file in the current checkmk version.

Upstream relicensed that one file, so the only change remaining are the
debian/* files.



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