[PHPiCalendar-DEV] Fwd: Licensing Issues

[Jim Hu <ji...@ta...>]

Does anyone have a problem with making a change from GPL to LGPL?

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Steven Oxley <ste...@gm...>
> Date: September 10, 2009 9:31:48 AM CDT
> To: Jim Hu <ji...@ta...>
> Subject: Re: Licensing Issues
>
> I believe that is all that would be required, but everyone who has  
> contributed code to the project has a copyright to their code and in  
> order to release their code under a different license, their consent  
> would be required.  (At least that's what I have picked up from  
> other open source projects I've been "around").
>
> Steven Oxley
>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Jim Hu <ji...@ta...> wrote:
> Hi Steven,
>
> That would be OK with me.  Not being a licensing expert, do I just  
> change the license file?
>
> Jim
>
> On Sep 10, 2009, at 9:01 AM, Steven Oxley wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I was looking at the PHP iCalendar package you have on sourceforge  
>> and I was thinking that I might like to use some of the iCalendar  
>> parsing code in a library of my own.  The problem is that your  
>> license is GPL v2 and I will be using this "library" that I want to  
>> create in a software package that I cannot release under GPL v2.  I  
>> was wondering if it might be possible to release the parsing code  
>> under LGPL so that I can modify it and use it in my own code  
>> without having to release my entire software package under GPL v2.
>>
>> Thanks for considering it,
>> Steven Oxley
>
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> Jim Hu
> Associate Professor
> Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
> 2128 TAMU
> Texas A&M Univ.
> College Station, TX 77843-2128
> 979-862-4054
>
>
>

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Jim Hu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
2128 TAMU
Texas A&M Univ.
College Station, TX 77843-2128
979-862-4054