Re: Missing copyright clause of debian directory

"that’s the beauty of using GPLv2+ instead of GPLv2: it can be converted to later versions 
*WITHOUT* any additional permission from the copyright holders”

That was an egregious enough typo that I felt compelled to send another email.  I 
apologize for the noise.

On Friday, April 12, 2024 12:48:20 PM MST Soren Stoutner wrote:
> As an additional followup, as the original debian/* files were licensed
> GPLv2+, if you edit a file you can choose to make your contribution GPLv3+,
> which would convert the entire file to GPLv3+.  If you end up editing all of
> the files in debian/* at least once, you could convert the entire copyright
> entry to GPLv3+.
> 
> I can’t do that with Electrum because there is no automatic conversion from
> GPLv3+ to Expat.  But it is an option that is open to you if you would like to
> pursue it.  It also isn’t a problem if you decide to leave all your
> contributions to debian/* as GPLv2+, as any GPLv2+ file can be contributed to
> an upstream GPLv3+ project (that’s the beauty of using GPLv2+ instead of
> GPLv2: it can be converted to later versions with any additional permission
> from the copyright holders).
> 
> On Friday, April 12, 2024 12:40:55 PM MST Soren Stoutner wrote:
> > As an additional comment, I currently maintain Electrum.  Upstream is
> 
> licensed
> 
> > Expat. Previous maintainers licensed their debian/* contributions GPLv3+.
> > When I took over the package, I started working closely with upstream and
> > wanted to contribute patches and other files, like AppSream metainfo to
> > them.
> > 
> > To do this, I wanted all of my new contributions to debian/* to be licensed
> > under Expat when I was the sole author of the file, and dual licensed under
> > GPLv3+ and Expat when I was editing an existing file.  I indicated that in
> > the following way:
> > 
> > Files:     debian/*
> > Copyright: 2013-2015 Vasudev Kamath <[email protected]>
> > 
> >            2013 Gregor Herrmann <[email protected]>
> >            2013-2021 Tristan Seligmann <[email protected]>
> >            2019-2020 Laurent Bigonville <[email protected]>
> >            2022 Bastian Germann <[email protected]>
> >            2022-2024 Soren Stoutner <[email protected]>
> > 
> > License:   GPL-3+
> > 
> > Comment:
> >  The following copyright holders additionally license their
> >  contributions to debian/* under the Expat license so that
> >  if all other listed contributors agree it can be relicensed
> >  under Expat, which is the license used by upstream and makes it
> >  easier for contributions to be upstreamed when appropriate:
> >  Soren Stoutner, Bastian Germann.
> > 
> > Files:     debian/electrum.1
> > Copyright: 2023-2024 Soren Stoutner <[email protected]>
> > License:   Expat
> >

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