Richard Laager <rlaager@debian.org> writes: > 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/a9d21841224da3295f2dd0a90022f5e435e48046/web-mode.el#L13 > > The existing copyright says GPL-2+ (not GPL-2). > Ack. I should have used the more precise terms. > 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. > >> 2. whether I should use GPL-2 as when the previous maintainer last >> worked on this or I can use GPL-3 to match upstream version as well? > > If that is what you believe applies to the debian files (which is what > debian/copyright says today), then I would keep it as that. GPL-2+ is, > of course, compatible with GPL-3+. > > So I think you end up with something like this: > > Files: * > License: GPL-3+ > Copyright: fill in the upstream copyright holders > > Files: debian/* > License: GPL-2+ > Copyright: previous maintainer, you Thanks for the suggestions Richard! -- Xiyue Deng
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