You can always unilaterally relicense code under the LGPL to be under
the GPL. The relevant clause of LGPL v3 is 2b: "you may convey a
modified version... under the GNU GPL"; there is a clause in LGPL v2
as well.
pat
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:19 AM, J.M. Maurer <uwog@uwog.net> wrote:
>
> To Robert Staudinger and Tomeu Vizoso:
>
> There is some example code to embed abiword in firefox available here:
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/abiword-embed;a=summary
>
> Robert and Tomeu are listed as AUHTORS. I would like to request you two
> to relicense the code (just the .c and .h files; I plan to ditch the
> buildsys stuff). The COPYING file states it's released under the LGPL,
> which I think is wrong: it links to gplv2+ code, so it should be
> something like GPLv2+.
>
> So: would you be willing to relicense the code to GPLv2+?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Marc
>
>
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