Hi, I have no objection, and re-license the work I did on dpkg-ftp as GPL-2+. (pfew, that was ages ago ;))
Best regards, -- Yann ----- Mail original ----- > De: "Andy Guy" <a...@cyteen.org> > À: debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org, "Yann Dirson" <ydir...@free.fr>, > "Christian Hudon" <chr...@pianocktail.org> > Envoyé: Jeudi 16 Mars 2023 19:20:46 > Objet: Re: License audit on dpkg source tree > 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 >
