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

OK, well now you have a forked version.
-- Dave

At 01:21 PM 4/12/2005, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:
>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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