Re: How to handle GPL-2 and GPL-2+ code in same upstream repo situation?

El 11/8/24 a las 11:19, Vasyl Gello escribió:
> Recently FTP Master Thorsten Alteholz pointed me to the fact that mixing code
> licensed under GPL-2 only with code under GPL-2+ / GPL-3+ is not allowed in same
> repository [1].

I would say that's not a good characterization of the problem.

The problem is not about shipping GPL-2-only and GPL-3 files in the same repo.
That should be allowed. The problem is combining those files into a single
executable and shipping such executable inside the .deb. That's forbidden
because licenses are incompatible, as the matrix you quoted shows.

Here, "incompatible license" means you can't create a derived work with
files under those incompatible licenses.

So, before thinking in terms of repositories, you should think in terms
of what you are allowed to distribute in the .deb and what files were
combined to create those executables.

Thanks.