Bug#555168: Unclear license situation for (e)glibc locales provided by you
Hallo Helge
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 09:20:29AM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Hello Keld,
> I was told that this e-mail address is the successor to the (no longer
> working) one Keld.Simonsen@dkuug.dk. If that is not the case please
> accept my apologizes (and maybe you know the correct current contact
> details in that case?).
>
>
> You are listed as contact person/author of the following locales:
> da_DK de_BE de_CH de_LU el_GR en_AU en_CA en_DK en_GB en_IE en_NZ
> es_AR es_BO es_CL es_CO es_DO es_EC es_ES es_GT es_HN es_MX es_PA
> es_PE es_PY es_SV es_US es_UY es_VE eu_ES fi_FI fo_FO fr_BE fr_CA
> fr_CH fr_LU he_IL it_CH iw_IL kl_GL nl_BE nl_NL pl_PL POSIX pt_BR
> pt_PT ru_RU sv_FI sv_SE hu_HU ro_RO tr_TR
>
> These locales come with a statement
>
> % Distribution and use is free, also
> % for commercial purposes.
>
> Thus they do not allow modification; it is unclear, however, if this
> statement was meant as a license.
They were meant as a licence
> As discussed in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=555168 these
> locales could strictly speaking not be part of Debian which would be a great loss.
> (Currently they are allowed pending investigation).
>
> To properly resolve this, I would like to ask you the following question:
>
> Would you be willing to relicense these locale(s) to a proper license, e.g.
> (L)GPL v2 or higher or another free software license of your choice?
I am willing to release them under GPL v2 - This hereby granted.
> If you have any questions regarding this issue, do not hesitate to contact
> me (via the reply-to address set).
MfG
Keld
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