Re: ANN: Lush 2.0 beta release

Raymond,

We actually got persmission from all the people we could think of.

We think a lot more people would use Lush in industrial contexts
if we switched to the LGPL.

We knew you contributed to the documentation, which is really not
affected by the license, but I guess we overlooked your contributions
to the code.

Would you give your permission for the switch, as far as your
contributions are concerned?  If not, we will just take out your
contributions, but that would be a shame.

Thanks,

  -- Yann


On Monday 19 October 2009, Raymond Martin wrote:
> 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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