On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Charles Plessy<ple...@debian.org> wrote:
> The dh_make template for debian/copyright induces many developers to put their > packaging work under the GPL, and I have already seen packages whose license > is > otherwise BSD-ish with such patches. If the maintainer suddenly goes MIA and > the patch is non-trivial, then in theory if we want to respect what is > written, > we are stuck with a GPL'ed patch. Therefore, we have an optional License field > to make things crystal clear if necessary. Sounds like dh_make needs a bug report about the default packagaging license, could you file one? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
