[fpc-devel] LGPL vs BSD

[Jonas Maebe]

On 4 aug 2006, at 15:06, Marco van de Voort wrote:

>> 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.
>
> Then you are stuck with LGPL.

Or you can wait until 75 years (90 in the US) after the last author  
dies :) (or whatever copyright term extension Disney has managed to  
buy by then)


Jonas