On 18 Sep 2007, at 11:11, Quentin Mathé wrote:

> I'm happy with relicensing SystemConfig under BSD.

Well, that simplifies things a lot :-)

> If the framework remains under LGPL2 for now, I think it's probably
> simpler to add a new file (or a note in COPYING) summarizing the
> license of each framework file rather than creating subprojects or
> subframeworks for BSD vs LGPL2. Well, this is valid only if a
> subframework isn't needed… My reasoning is based on the following
> understanding: you can directly integrate BSD-licensed files into an
> LGPL2 library because the COPYING file "transparently" relicenses all
> aggregated files not already under LGPL2. Can someone confirm or deny
> it? The benefit of this approach to me was you are still free to
> extract aggregated code under its original license at later point.

Almost.  What you describe would be the case for the GPL, but the  
LGPL there are a couple of slight differences.  It's close enough,  
however (none of the special cases are ones I particularly care about).

David
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