On 11 December 2017 at 17:17, blubee blubeeme <gurenc...@gmail.com> wrote: > I like some old software that's <= GPL2 but it seems like the original > developer is not and have not done any work on the software sine mid 2000. > > I'd like to pick up the project, fix bugs BUT i'd like to migrate from GPL > to BSD license. > > How does one go about doing that? I have seen the GPL code but it could be > re-written how would that affect me re-writing the code with a new copy > center license?
You basically have to get the original author to reassign copyright to you; after which you can do whatever you like to it. If you're basing your new work on the original work, you have to respect the LICENCE that it came with. -- Jonathan Chen <j...@chen.org.nz> _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
