[fpc-devel] LGPL vs BSD

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 8/4/06, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
> inhibitions, more people using it, and for merging stuff back into main
> distribution, questions etc, you still need contact with the creators. You
> can simply refuse support to sb who clearly maintains his own trees.


So what happens if you find a discontinued LGPL project (dead for 4+
years) and you want to create a new product based on the original
work.  Trying to contact the original author was unsuccessfull.  There
are many of those on SourceForge.

Can you re-license your new project (which is based on the original
one) with a different license, example BSD or MPL or something more
restrictive or must the new project also be based on the LGPL?

Regards,
  Graeme.


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