Re: abiword-embed relicensing

On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 08:31 -0500, Patrick Lam wrote:
> You can always unilaterally relicense code under the LGPL to be under
> the GPL. The relevant clause of LGPL v3 is 2b: "you may convey a
> modified version... under the GNU GPL"; there is a clause in LGPL v2
> as well.

I was 99% sure of that, but to be safe I decided to ask. Thanks for the
re-assurance.

  Marc

> pat
>
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:19 AM, J.M. Maurer <uwog@uwog.net> wrote:
> >
> > To Robert Staudinger and Tomeu Vizoso:
> >
> > There is some example code to embed abiword in firefox available here:
> >
> > http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/abiword-embed;a=summary
> >
> > Robert and Tomeu are listed as AUHTORS. I would like to request you two
> > to relicense the code (just the .c and .h files; I plan to ditch the
> > buildsys stuff). The COPYING file states it's released under the LGPL,
> > which I think is wrong: it links to gplv2+ code, so it should be
> > something like GPLv2+.
> >
> > So: would you be willing to relicense the code to GPLv2+?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Marc
> >
> >
Received on Sat Jan 31 14:45:47 2009