Re: Swixml 1.1 and LGPL

Brian P Michael wrote:
> He no longer owns the software, the public does.

Brian, I'm afraid you are confusing public domain with open source.  Or, 
sort of, anyway.  Existing releases with existing OS licenses will 
continue with those.

As others have mentioned, Wolf as copyright holder can release the same 
code with different licenses.  Or, he can use a different license for 
new code.  He could even stop releasing source.  Existing releases can 
be used as open-source as they always were.

The only thing that can be tricky is when others start contributing to 
the code base.  A lot of projects ask that contributors assign copyright 
to the project or maintainer to simplify these matters.  I'm afraid I 
haven't been following SwixML source and contributions to comment on the 
status of the code.

I hope this makes sense.  I did a lot of research on this topic a couple 
of months back, when looking into opening some of my code.

Pat.