Re: LiS and Linux 2.6 (SuSE 9.1 and SuSE 9.2)

Dave,

This section is from the LGPL:

  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 this License.  (If a new 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 changes 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.

  This option is useful when you wish to copy part of the code for the
  Library into a program that is not a library.

So, in fact, it is you and other Authors that licensed the work under
the LGPL that authorized others to change the licensing terms of LiS
from LGPL to GPL.

If you had wanted to restrict that, you should not have used the LGPL.
You should have instead used, say, a BSD-style license.

--brian

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Dave Grothe wrote:

> 
>    At 07:01 PM 4/11/2005, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:
> 
>      >  Is  it still your intention to make it full GPL or are you going
>      to
>      > use a similar LGPL that LiS uses?
>      The only component released under LGPL is the libxnet library.
>      This is also true of the LiS 2.18.1 release, which will be
>      released under GPL.
> 
>    Brian, you are not authorized to change the licensing terms of LiS.
>    -- Dave

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