Bug#875265: RFS: rednotebook/2.2-1 [ITP] [ITA] -- A cross-platform journal
On Tue, 2017-09-12 at 11:49 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 04:13:20AM +0100, Phil Wyett wrote:
> > > Why are you skipping tests?
>
> Hmm?
>
I reserve comment until I have sought and had feedback from elsewhere.
> > > It seems that the package combines incompatible licenses (GPL-2 and
> > > GPL-3+)?
> >
> > To address the license issue. The upstream author used the file concerned
> > prior
> > to file being changed to GPL-2+. For reference, git commit for change to
> > GPL-2+.
> >
> > https://github.com/txt2tags/txt2tags/commit/716debb6ae7996e21201a74cfa6a30cb
> > 8b25
> > 32fe
>
> If the code in rednotebook was copied before the license change then it's
> under GPL-2 only and you cannot change the license header. Or did you mean
> something else?
>
Sorry, I may have not explained this as fully as I should.
The rednotebook upstream author added txt2tags.py and then GPL-2 license data to
his project prior to the txt2tags author changing his licensing to GPL-2+. This
is why the data was bad in rednotebook. Updating (as done) to the now correct
GPL-2+ txt2tags.py brings everything up to date and rectifies the situation
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