Here is the email conversation containing the grant of licence from
all previous contributors to debian/*.  Replies from from Mehdi
Dogguy, Trent Buck, and Julien Danjou have good GPG signatures.  The
reply from Michael W. Olson, the original author and principal
copyrightholder, was unsigned but has good ARC Authentication Results
header, ARC Signature, and ARC Seal.

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Message-ID: <20170531190344.GA26354@REDACTED>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 15:03:44 -0400
From: Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>
To: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>,
    Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>, Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@debian.org>,
    Michael W. Olson <mwolson@gnu.org>, Trent Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com>
Subject: RSVP: please confirm the license of your debian/* contributions for
 muse-el

Dear David, Julien, Mehdi, Michael, and Trent,

Some time ago I adopted muse-el and my upload sponsor asked me to
modernise the package as much as possible.  Although non-DFSG
documentation had already been removed, I wanted to document this
using Files-Excluded and automate their removal from future releases.
This necessitated changing d/copyright format.

I asked debian-legal for advice on what to do here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux.debian.legal/ysvsnBPAJQs

Synopsis:

Something short like "I intended my work to be released as GPL2+" will
probably do the trick.  A signed email is not required, but is
preferred.  A reply to the above thread or a reply to this email both
work.  My understanding is that if replying to this email I will need
to document the conversation using this format:
https://browse.dgit.debian.org/sympathy.git/tree/COPYING.emails

If the replies are to debian-legal then I'm not sure if COPYING.emails
necessary and will ask them for confirmation.

Sincerely,
Nicholas

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Message-ID: <eead7097-c030-7112-ab8c-2778237edc89@REDACTED>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 01:52:26 +0200
From: Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@debian.org>
To: Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RSVP: please confirm the license of your debian/* contributions
 for muse-el

Hi Nicolas,

First, thanks for your work on this package and your efforts!

On 2017-05-31 21:03, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> [ quoted text deleted; see above for a copy -nds ]

I've had a look at my changes in muse-el. I am pretty sure that my
contribution is not significant and doesn't require any statement
from myself. I've only NMUed once to fix two bugs.

> [ quoted text deleted; see above for a copy -nds ]

Cheers,

--=20
Mehdi

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Message-ID: <20170601001556.GA1955@REDACTED>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 10:15:58 +1000
From: Trent Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com>
To: Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RSVP: please confirm the license of your debian/* contributions
 for muse-el

Nicholas

Please consider my contributions to muse-el packaging to be licensed under GPL2+.
I'm happy to use other DFSG/OSS/FSF-approved licenses if that makes life easier for you.

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Message-ID: <20170601003335.GA2540@REDACTED>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 10:33:37 +1000
From: Trent Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com>
To: Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RSVP: please confirm the license of your debian/* contributions
 for muse-el

Trent Buck wrote:
> Nicholas
>
> Please consider my contributions to muse-el packaging to be licensed under GPL2+.
> I'm happy to use other DFSG/OSS/FSF-approved licenses if that makes life easier for you.

PS: AFAICT from the current debian/changelog my work was only the initial packaging, and
AFAICT from "dget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20050816T000000Z/pool/main/m/muse-el/muse-el_3.01.arch.201-2.dsc" that constituted

    * download & unpack the upstream tarball
    * run dh-make -s
    * copy ;;;autoload lines to debian/emacsen-install
    * copy package description from website to debian/control

So, not very much ☺

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Message-ID: <CAN4ruPguBqNUGkE6PyrQmpHxDhvVog1Z3O8ARnv8a_SqAjcCGQ@REDACTED>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 20:24:01 -0700
From: Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org>
To: Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>
Cc: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>, Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>,
    Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@debian.org>, Trent Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RSVP: please confirm the license of your debian/* contributions
 for muse-el

I intended my work to be released as GPL2+

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>
wrote:
> [ quoted text deleted; see above for a copy -nds ]

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Message-ID: <m0d1aogmwy.fsf@REDACTED>
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 09:57:49 +0200
From: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
To: Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>
Cc: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>, Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@debian.org>,
    Michael W. Olson <mwolson@gnu.org>, Trent Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RSVP: please confirm the license of your debian/* contributions for muse-el

Hi Nicholas,

I intended my work to be released as GPL2+

Hope that'll help! :)

On Wed, May 31 2017, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> [ quoted text deleted; see above for a copy -nds ]
