Re: ANN: Lush 2.0 beta release

On October 19, 2009 01:14:37 am Ralf Juengling wrote:
> Folks, a first Lush 2.0 beta release is out.
> Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lush/files

Yeah, how did this end up under LGPL?

If any of the previous GPL code from older Lush has been used then you cannot
change it to LGPL unless you get permission from everybody who contributed
code to those parts. I contributed a small little bit, plus some documentation
and was never asked about this and did not see anything on the lists, IIRC.

I remember in the past asking about certain licenses and such and being
told by Leon that it would be almost impossible to contact people that
had contributed. So on that basis, it looks like this is a license violation,
not to mention a violation of the copyrights of all those contributors.

And, in fact, I see from the COPYRIGHT file and the headers in all the C
files that this is definitely a license violation. There was never a LGPL 2
as stated in those. The Lesser LGPL started at version 2.1. Seems you have
just added the word "Lesser" in place.

This immediately invalidates any license claim and means you must cease
distribution of this package until this situation is rectified (revert back to 
GPL).

Raymond

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