> On 8/4/06, Marco van de Voort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Then you are stuck with LGPL. > 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? No. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
