Copyright question: GPL patches for non-GPL packages

[Marco Pistore <pistore@DI.Unipi.IT>]

Hi!

I'd like to add to the debian package for gs-aladdin some 
additional drives. These are distributed as patches and are ofted GPLed.
The problem is that gs-aladdin is (quite unfortunately) *not* GPLed.

The question is: is it safe to apply GPL patches to non-GPL packages? 
Or would i be oblidged by the GNU license to distribute the whole
package as GPL, which is obviously impossible?

Thank you,

Marco
 



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