"that’s the beauty of using GPLv2+ instead of GPLv2: it can be converted to later versions WITHOUT any additional permission from the copyright holders”
That was an egregious enough typo that I felt compelled to send another email. I apologize for the noise.
On Friday, April 12, 2024 12:48:20 PM MST Soren Stoutner wrote:
> As an additional followup, as the original debian/* files were licensed
> GPLv2+, if you edit a file you can choose to make your contribution GPLv3+,
> which would convert the entire file to GPLv3+. If you end up editing all of
> the files in debian/* at least once, you could convert the entire copyright
> entry to GPLv3+.
>
> I can’t do that with Electrum because there is no automatic conversion from
> GPLv3+ to Expat. But it is an option that is open to you if you would like to
> pursue it. It also isn’t a problem if you decide to leave all your
> contributions to debian/* as GPLv2+, as any GPLv2+ file can be contributed to
> an upstream GPLv3+ project (that’s the beauty of using GPLv2+ instead of
> GPLv2: it can be converted to later versions with any additional permission
> from the copyright holders).
>
> On Friday, April 12, 2024 12:40:55 PM MST Soren Stoutner wrote:
> > As an additional comment, I currently maintain Electrum. Upstream is
>
> licensed
>
> > Expat. Previous maintainers licensed their debian/* contributions GPLv3+.
> > When I took over the package, I started working closely with upstream and
> > wanted to contribute patches and other files, like AppSream metainfo to
> > them.
> >
> > To do this, I wanted all of my new contributions to debian/* to be licensed
> > under Expat when I was the sole author of the file, and dual licensed under
> > GPLv3+ and Expat when I was editing an existing file. I indicated that in
> > the following way:
> >
> > Files: debian/*
> > Copyright: 2013-2015 Vasudev Kamath <kamathvasudev@gmail.com>
> >
> > 2013 Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
> > 2013-2021 Tristan Seligmann <mithrandi@debian.org>
> > 2019-2020 Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>
> > 2022 Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org>
> > 2022-2024 Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org>
> >
> > License: GPL-3+
> >
> > Comment:
> > The following copyright holders additionally license their
> > contributions to debian/* under the Expat license so that
> > if all other listed contributors agree it can be relicensed
> > under Expat, which is the license used by upstream and makes it
> > easier for contributions to be upstreamed when appropriate:
> > Soren Stoutner, Bastian Germann.
> >
> > Files: debian/electrum.1
> > Copyright: 2023-2024 Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org>
> > License: Expat
> >
> > Files: debian/patches/*
> > Copyright: 2022-2024 Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org>
> > License: Expat
> >
> > Files: debian/patches/Improve-message-about-PyQt5.patch
> > Copyright: 2020 Tristan Seligmann <mithrandi@debian.org>
> > License: GPL-3+
> >
> > https://sources.debian.org/src/electrum/4.5.4%2Bdfsg-1/debian/copyright/[1]
> >
> > On Friday, April 12, 2024 12:10:43 PM MST Richard Laager wrote:
> > > I've only looked at this situation for a total of five minutes prior to
> > > writing this email, so take this with a grain of salt. But to help you
> > > make forward progress...
> > >
> > > Upstream seems to use GPL-3+ (not GPL-3). For example:
> > > https://github.com/fxbois/web-mode/blob/
>
> a9d21841224da3295f2dd0a90022f5e435e4
>
> > > 80 46/web-mode.el#L13
> > >
> > > The existing copyright says GPL-2+ (not GPL-2).
> > >
> > > On 2024-04-10 23:05, Xiyue Deng wrote:
> > > > 1. whether I can add the new copyright section to cover debian/*, and
> > >
> > > I think it is pretty typical to have a debian/* section. And if the
> > > licenses differ (see below), then you would _have_ to have separate
> > > sections.
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Soren Stoutner
soren@debian.org
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