[Mysqlcppapi-main] Re: mysqlcppapi needs a new maintainer

[Benjamin P. <ben...@pf...>]

Hello.

On Fri 2003-12-12 at 13:10:04 +0100, you wrote
[...]
> I do not give any other project permission to relicense the
> mysqlcppapi LGPL code as GPL. I am not a lawyer, but I thinking that
> permission is necessary.

IANAL, neither. Just to prevent other readers from a possible
misunderstanding: IMHO, you already gave that permission implicitly by
chosing the LGPL as license. From the LGPL-2.1 (the LGPL-2 contains
the same wording):

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  3. You may opt to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU General Public
License instead of this License to a given copy of the Library.  To do
this, you must alter all the notices that refer to this License, so
that they refer to the ordinary GNU General Public License, version 2,
instead of to this License.  (If a newer version than version 2 of the
ordinary GNU General Public License has appeared, then you can specify
that version instead if you wish.)  Do not make any other change in
these notices.

  Once this change is made in a given copy, it is irreversible for
that copy, so the ordinary GNU General Public License applies to all
subsequent copies and derivative works made from that copy.
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So, the LGPL explicitly allows other to relicense the work as GPL.

Regards,

	Benjamin.