<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Thorsten Alteholz </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><<a href="mailto:alteholz@debian.org" target="_blank">alteholz@debian.org</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"> wrote:</span><br>

</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Kristof,<div class="">

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On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Kristof Ralovich wrote:<br>
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we were able to address the licensing of  src/SerialUsb.cpp<br>
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I am afraid that the real problem wasn't solved.<br>
src/SerialUsb.cpp is published under GPLv2, lots of other stuff is published under GPLv3+. Both licenses demand that the resulting software is published under their license. So it is not possible to mix both.<br>
Please also see the matrix of Paul, which is available for example at<br>
  <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/01/msg00078.html" target="_blank">https://lists.debian.org/<u></u>debian-devel/2014/01/msg00078.<u></u>html</a><br>
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Everything would be fine if you license your code under GPLv2+ instead of GPLv3+ ...<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br>
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   Thorsten</font></span></blockquote></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dear Christian,</div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">

<br></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">I have misunderstood Throsten's remark previously, I thought the only problem was missing clarity in debian/copyright. That's not the case, hence, I released a new upstream version 1.16. In this the external GPLv2 code is removed completely, and I have relicensed my work in <span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">src/SerialUsb.cpp under GPLv3+</span></div>

<div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">This is all folded that into the debian downstream too. git-pbuilder passes under debian/unstable. Could you please take a look at it and upload if possible?</div>

<div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Thank you for your help!</div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div>

<div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Kristof</div></div></div>