Re: MPL code --> LGPL project

Gervase Markham <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.license
Organization mozilla.org
Message-ID <[email protected]>
rigidus wrote:
> I'm new to MPL and I would have a question related to a licensing issue. :-)
> 
> There is a library project that I'd like to redistribute and include in my
> LGPL-licensed project as a subproject, 

What do you mean by "as a subproject"? Do you mean make it part of the 
LGPLed library, or have it as an additional library?

> also I'd like to change the license
> to LGPL. 

You can't do that without permission from all copyright holders.

> The original project is under either MPL or a modified BSD license
> and I'm not sure whether it's possible or not. 

You can incorporate software under a BSD licence into LGPLed software, 
as long as you obey the terms of the licence. I would use that option 
rather than the MPL.

Gerv
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