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  • Re: Bug#971594: RFS: asciidoc/9.0.2-1 [ITA] -- Highly configurable text

    From Andrew M.A. Cater@21:1/5 to Leon Marz on Thu Oct 28 15:30:02 2021
    On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 02:26:10PM +0200, Leon Marz wrote:
    On 10/27/21 9:38 PM, Bastian Germann wrote:
    Hi Leon,

    The package seems to be okay except for the debian/copyright file. Just
    by looking at the debdiff (excluding the unchanged upstream sources) I
    can identify several files with additional copyright holders. Also, some files are GPL-2-only, which are not okay to publish under the general GPL-2+ that is assumed for *.

    Quick Question: How can I determine if a file is GPL-2-only or GPL-2+?

    Is it the phrase "Free use of this software is granted under the terms
    of the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2)."?

    - Leon



    GPL 2+ usually has "or any later version" in there after (GPLv2) - and at
    that point, you can regard it as GPLv2 or 3 [or any later version we may get
    in the future).

    Hope this helps,

    Andy Cater

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