Re: uploading GPLv3 packages (original) (raw)

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:42:03 +1000 Ben Finney bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au wrote:

Ricardo Mones mones@debian.org writes:

Is it legal to upload a package with GPLv3 license right now?

It's always legal to upload it anywhere, because the license gives you the permission to do that (provided you comply with the rest of the terms).

True, I should have been more specific as you nicely guessed :)

Whether a GPLv3 work is distributable compliant with Debian's own DFSG is a different matter -- and if the answer is "no", that doesn't make it illegal for you to distribute it.

Indeed, but even if it's legally redistributable it may not agree to the DFSG, so would not qualify to be uploaded into main category of the archive, which is my original worry. From your answer seems this is a pending question, which doesn't help me to decide.

FWIW I'm not asking because of a theoretical concern: the claws-mail upstream has moved license to GPLv3, and the next version will be probably released in a couple of weeks.

regards,

Ricardo Mones http://people.debian.org/~mones «Q: What is the difference between a duck? A: One leg is both the same.»

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