Looks like my previous mail didn't reach you (there's no trace of it in BTS; I had some issues with my mail server in the past so it's very likely that you didn't receive it)
Anyway, could you use LGPL instead of GPL for your patches? Please note that both: upstream sources and Debian packaging are licensed under LGPL -- :wq!
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