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(Not yet a) project take-over

Asked by AntoineM

Hello,

I have a question regarding ethics.

I would like to contribute to one package which is in someone's ppa.
The code is located in his personal branches area (+junk) so there is no Launchpad project and I cannot propose my new commits.
That package did not have any active development in the past 3 years and I have tried to contact the original author but without success so far.

My question is:
Can I simply use his code to create a new project on Launchpad?
(In the source folder there is the GPL v2 statement)

Thanks.

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AntoineM (antoine-merle) said : 		#1

I had an answer on IRC:

[18:21] <dobey> amerle: you cannot change the license to something other than what is permitted by the current license, but you can "fork" the code and create a real project, sure.