From: Jim Hu <ji...@ta...> - 2009-09-10 14:59:09
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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 > > ===================================== > Jim Hu > Associate Professor > Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics > 2128 TAMU > Texas A&M Univ. > College Station, TX 77843-2128 > 979-862-4054 > > > ===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054 |