Re: GPL for package under MIT license upstream; repack?

2019-09-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 11:52:11PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > However, if you're worried you could patch in an extra bit of commentary > in the header files. There's no need to repack the original tarball for > this, and you mustn't remove the MIT licence notices (doing so would > likely itself

Re: GPL for package under MIT license upstream; repack?

2019-09-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 09:30:38PM +0200, Gard Spreemann wrote: > Colin Watson writes: > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Gard Spreemann wrote: > >> A package I maintain (src:gudhi) was mostly under GPL-3+ up to and > >> including the current version in the archives. Since then, upstrea

Re: GPL for package under MIT license upstream; repack?

2019-09-24 Thread Alf Gaida
Sorry Gary, i just make a mistake - you can't relicense MIT(X11) stuff - it would work only with some BSD files. You could modify the license (just as in ncurses) and be done with - i would like to recommend not to do so. Cheers Alf

Re: GPL for package under MIT license upstream; repack?

2019-09-24 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 24 septembre 2019 10:41 +02, Gard Spreemann : > A package I maintain (src:gudhi) was mostly under GPL-3+ up to and > including the current version in the archives. Since then, upstream has > switched to an MIT license, but with the caveat that many parts of the > code has GPL dependencies and t

Re: GPL for package under MIT license upstream; repack?

2019-09-24 Thread Alf Gaida
Plain no. If they are really interested they would know that they can use every MIT part under GPL because of license compatibilty. Things change dramatically if you would consider to change the licenses of the files - if one would contribute to your now forked files the original project would have

Re: GPL for package under MIT license upstream; repack?

2019-09-24 Thread Gard Spreemann
Colin Watson writes: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Gard Spreemann wrote: >> A package I maintain (src:gudhi) was mostly under GPL-3+ up to and >> including the current version in the archives. Since then, upstream has >> switched to an MIT license, but with the caveat that many pa

Re: GPL for package under MIT license upstream; repack?

2019-09-24 Thread Gard Spreemann
Filippo Rusconi writes: > Greetings, > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Gard Spreemann wrote: >>Hello, >> >>A package I maintain (src:gudhi) was mostly under GPL-3+ up to and >>including the current version in the archives. Since then, upstream has >>switched to an MIT license, but w

Bug#941092: ITP: python-pyrsistent -- Persistent/Functional/Immutable data structures

2019-09-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-pyrsistent Version : 0.15.4 Upstream Author : Tobias Gustafsson * URL : https://github.com/tobgu/pyrsistent/ * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Description : Persiste

Bug#941087: ITP: ansimarkup -- Produce colored terminal text with an xml-like markup

2019-09-24 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: ansimarkup Version : 1.4.0 Upstream Author : Georgi Valkov * URL : https://github.com/gvalkov/python-ansimarkup * License : BSD-3-Clause Programming Lang: Python3 Description :

Bug#941086: ITP: python-pyperform -- fast and convenient way to performance test functions and compare results

2019-09-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-pyperform Version : 1.86 Upstream Author : Calvin Lobo * URL : https://github.com/lobocv/pyperform * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Description : fast and convenien

Re: GPL for package under MIT license upstream; repack?

2019-09-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Gard Spreemann wrote: > A package I maintain (src:gudhi) was mostly under GPL-3+ up to and > including the current version in the archives. Since then, upstream has > switched to an MIT license, but with the caveat that many parts of the > code has GPL depe

Re: GPL for package under MIT license upstream; repack?

2019-09-24 Thread Filippo Rusconi
Greetings, On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Gard Spreemann wrote: Hello, A package I maintain (src:gudhi) was mostly under GPL-3+ up to and including the current version in the archives. Since then, upstream has switched to an MIT license, but with the caveat that many parts of the cod

Re: Bits from the DPL (August 2019)

2019-09-24 Thread Mo Zhou
On 2019-09-24 07:34, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Dear Mo. > > Mo Zhou - 24.09.19, 04:58:06 CEST: >> For desktop users, non-systemd init plus a mordern desktop environment >> such as Plasma or Gnome would be impossible on Debian, as they depend >> on systemd. Some other distro such as Gentoo and Fr

GPL for package under MIT license upstream; repack?

2019-09-24 Thread Gard Spreemann
Hello, A package I maintain (src:gudhi) was mostly under GPL-3+ up to and including the current version in the archives. Since then, upstream has switched to an MIT license, but with the caveat that many parts of the code has GPL dependencies and that "for practical purposes this code is GPL-3 for

Re: Bits from the DPL (August 2019)

2019-09-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Dear Mo. Mo Zhou - 24.09.19, 04:58:06 CEST: > For desktop users, non-systemd init plus a mordern desktop environment > such as Plasma or Gnome would be impossible on Debian, as they depend > on systemd. Some other distro such as Gentoo and FreeBSD have somehow > removed the systemd dependency for