Hi Joey and Nicolas!

Long time ago the Debconf::Gettext [O] module got imported into the dpkg
code base [I] with some modifications from Nicolas. The current module
in the dpkg code base is [C], which has seen substantial modifications
by me since its import.

This is the only BSD-2-clause file in the whole code base, so it would
be nice if it could get relicensed into GPL-2+ like almost all other
code in dpkg, to simplify the licensing. Would both of you be fine
with such relicense?

Thanks,
Guillem

[O] <https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-debconf/debconf/-/blob/master/Debconf/Gettext.pm>
[I] <https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/diff/scripts/dpkg-gettext.pl?id=322d4f825722adf3deb85dbf7170ebb29862d5aa>
[C] <https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/tree/scripts/Dpkg/Gettext.pm>

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Hi Guillem,

GPL-2+ is fine for any of my modifications.

Best Regards,
—
Nicolas

On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 5:39 PM Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote:

Hi Joey and Nicolas!

Long time ago the Debconf::Gettext [O] module got imported into the dpkg
code base [I] with some modifications from Nicolas. The current module
in the dpkg code base is [C], which has seen substantial modifications
by me since its import.

This is the only BSD-2-clause file in the whole code base, so it would
be nice if it could get relicensed into GPL-2+ like almost all other
code in dpkg, to simplify the licensing. Would both of you be fine
with such relicense?

Thanks,
Guillem

[O] < https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-debconf/debconf/-/blob/master/Debconf/Gettext.pm

[I] < https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/diff/scripts/dpkg-gettext.pl?id=322d4f825722adf3deb85dbf7170ebb29862d5aa

[C] <https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/tree/scripts/Dpkg/Gettext.pm>

<div dir="auto">Hi Guillem,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">GPL-2+ is fine for any of my modifications.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best Regards,</div><div dir="auto">— </div><div dir="auto">Nicolas</div><div><br><div
class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 5:39 PM Guillem Jover &lt;<a href="mailto:guillem@debian.org">guillem@debian.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-
left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">Hi Joey and Nicolas!<br>

Long time ago the Debconf::Gettext [O] module got imported into the dpkg<br> code base [I] with some modifications from Nicolas. The current module<br>
in the dpkg code base is [C], which has seen substantial modifications<br>
by me since its import.<br>

This is the only BSD-2-clause file in the whole code base, so it would<br>
be nice if it could get relicensed into GPL-2+ like almost all other<br>
code in dpkg, to simplify the licensing. Would both of you be fine<br>
with such relicense?<br>

Thanks,<br>
Guillem<br>

[O] &lt;<a href="https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-debconf/debconf/-/blob/master/Debconf/Gettext.pm" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-debconf/debconf/-/blob/master/Debconf/Gettext.pm</a>&gt;<br>
[I] &lt;<a href="https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/diff/scripts/dpkg-gettext.pl?id=322d4f825722adf3deb85dbf7170ebb29862d5aa" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/diff/scripts/dpkg-gettext.pl?id=
322d4f825722adf3deb85dbf7170ebb29862d5aa</a>&gt;<br>
[C] &lt;<a href="https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/tree/scripts/Dpkg/Gettext.pm" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/tree/scripts/Dpkg/Gettext.pm</a>&gt;<br>
</blockquote></div></div>

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Guillem Jover wrote:

Hi Joey and Nicolas!

Long time ago the Debconf::Gettext [O] module got imported into the dpkg
code base [I] with some modifications from Nicolas. The current module
in the dpkg code base is [C], which has seen substantial modifications
by me since its import.

This is the only BSD-2-clause file in the whole code base, so it would
be nice if it could get relicensed into GPL-2+ like almost all other
code in dpkg, to simplify the licensing. Would both of you be fine
with such relicense?

Thanks,
Guillem

[O] <https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-debconf/debconf/-/blob/master/Debconf/Gettext.pm>
[I] <https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/diff/scripts/dpkg-gettext.pl?id=322d4f825722adf3deb85dbf7170ebb29862d5aa>
[C] <https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/tree/scripts/Dpkg/Gettext.pm>

I'm not sure if there is enough of my code left here, or enough
expressiveness, for me to hold a legitimate copyright on it. But I
am fine with relicensing it GPL-2+.

-
see shy jo

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Hi!

On Mon, 2023-03-06 at 21:32:05 -0800, Nicolas François wrote:

GPL-2+ is fine for any of my modifications.

Perfect, thanks!

On Tue, 2023-03-07 at 18:53:27 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:

I'm not sure if there is enough of my code left here, or enough expressiveness, for me to hold a legitimate copyright on it. But I
am fine with relicensing it GPL-2+.

This also briefly crossed my mind, but given that the current code was
derived from yours, just for that alone but also out of courtesy this
is what seemed like the correct thing to do. :) Regardless, thanks too!

Attached is what I've queued for my next push.

Thanks,
Guillem

From 72d7307ff2951c75ee9680307004c08c397f7ac9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2023 23:49:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Dpkg::Gettext: Relicense from BSD-2 to GPL-2+
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This file was originally copied from the Debconf::Gettext module from
debconf with a BSD-2 license, originally by Joey Hess, which got
modified by Nicolas Fran=C3=A7ois on import, and subsequently reworked by
me, and with a trivial change by Rapha=C3=ABl Hertzog.

With agreement from authors with original or non-trivial code:

Joey Hess
<https://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2023/03/msg00005.html>
Nicolas Fran=C3=A7ois
<https://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2023/03/msg00002.html>

and myself with this commit, relicense this file from BSD-2 to GPL-2+
to simplify the licensing for the Dpkg perl modules.

Signed-off-by: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
---
debian/copyright | 33 ++-------------------------------
scripts/Dpkg/Gettext.pm | 33 +++++++++++++--------------------
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index 8135e5cc1..082328813 100644
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -26,13 +26,13 @@ Copyright:
Copyright =C2=A9 1999 Richard Kettlewell <rjk@sfere.greenend.org.uk>
Copyright =C2=A9 1999-2001 Marcus Brinkmann <brinkmd@debian.org>
Copyright =C2=A9 1999-2002 Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
- Copyright =C2=A9 2001, 2007, 2010 Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
+ Copyright =C2=A9 2000-2001, 2007, 2010 Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Copyright =C2=A9 2004-2005, 2007-2008, 2010 Canonical Ltd.
Copyright =C2=A9 2004-2005 Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>
Copyright =C2=A9 2006-2008 Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
Copyright =C2=A9 2006-2023 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
+ Copyright =C2=A9 2006-2007 Nicolas Fran=C3=A7ois <nicola