On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 11:12:57 -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > Ok, I have a program that I intend to fork and start maintaing myself. > The Copyright file contains this information (program name changed to > protect the innocent):
[BSD-style without ad clause] > ALTERNATIVELY, this product may be distributed under the terms of the > GNU General Public License > b) Better yet, can I replace it with the LGPL being as this is a > library? On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 12:08:38 -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote: > b) Better yet, can I replace it with the LGPL being as this is a > library? > > No. It says the GPL, not the LGPL. On the other hand, if it said the > LGPL you could use the GPL since the LGPL has a clause explicitly > letting you convert an LGPL'd work to GPL. On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 16:07:00 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > b) Better yet, can I replace it with the LGPL being as this is a library? > > No. The closest you can come to that is to place your changes under the > terms of the original license. Erm, the original license allows you to choose BSD-style terms. Is there really a conflict between these terms and the LGPL? If not, wouldn't it be a possibility to say "I abide by the BSD-style terms, which allow me to relicense work based on it under the LGPL"? Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their own. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
