On 8-Mar-07, at 7:59 AM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:

> Quoting Kjell Irgens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
>> I have talked to the GPL guru where I work.  He says that you can not
>> change the license of something that is LGPL into GPL without the
>> permission from all copyright holders (the original authors).  So the
>> old drivers are still LGPL.
>>
>> Your new code can really only be changed into LGPL if you get the
>> permission from all copyright holders, i.e. everyone who has  
>> contributed
>> to libdbi-drivers and the SQLite driver.  It would probably  
>> suffice to
>> ask on this mailing list if anyone disagrees?
>>
>
> Thanks for asking, this legal stuff is really above my head. I'll
> check the cvs logs but I guess that I was the only one who ever
> seriously fiddled with the sqlite/sqlite3 drivers. For the package as
> a whole, could every driver maintainer please indicate whether you
> agree with the license change?

LGPL is fine with me (Ingres driver & minor contributions to other  
drivers).

--Toby

>
> regards,
> Markus


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