Hi, I am 'Andy W P Guy' who wrote dpkg-ftp. My current email address is a...@cyteen.org. I am happy to re-licence the work I did as GPL-2 or any future version of GPL.
Andy Guy On Thu, 16 Mar 2023 at 17:32, Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi! > > [ Bringing back this old thread, as there is still one unsolved item > from the old list, and realized afterwards that there were more > authors involved, not mentioned on the original thread, which I'd > like to have their answer on record to decide how to proceed in > the future. ] > > On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 18:11:16 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > This is something that has been bothering me for a long time, so the > > other day I sat down and did a full license audit of the sources. > > > > I've cleaned up the license headers and added missing ones, as a side > > effect “licensecheck -r dpkg” works better now. There's still lots of > > copyright statements missing, I have a patch around to add few, but > > every file takes time digging, and there's probably more urgent things > > to tend to. I'd like to get all GPL code unified as GPL-2+, > > eventually, though. > > > > The remaining issues, which might need asking people around are: > > > * dselect/methods/Debian/Dselect/Ftp.pm: No header > > dselect/methods/ftp/*: GPL (no version) > > > > The dselect-ftp method from the dpkg-ftp package, states on its > > debian/copyright file to be under the GPL-2 only. Ideally this > > would have the same terms as the rest of the code base, in case > > code needs to be reused for example. > > As I dug up in the old dpkg-ftp history (which I imported into > <https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg-ftp.git/> for analysis), there > were also Yann Dirson and Christian Hudon (both CCed). Would both of > you be fine with relicensing your changes there from GPL-2 to GPL-2+? > > The last author for whom I have no contact details is Andy W.P. Guy, > but I'll try asking around. > > Thanks, > Guillem >
