On 29/07/17 09:38, Johnny A. Solbu wrote:
I am the new upstream maintainer of the cd ripper Grip
What do you mean by the maintainer? If you are the actual copyright owner, you can distribute it under any licence you like, as long as you continue to honour requests to supply the source code for versions you previously distributed.
To the extent that you do not own the copyright in any particular file, you can redistribute that file under the relevant version 3 licence.
If you have accepted non-trivial changes without copyright being assigned to you, or the right to re-licence, you do not fully own the copyright in the affected files and cannot make an arbitrary change of licence, but can still upgrade to version 3.
The code licence is stated as follows: == * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the * License, or (at your option) any later version. == Some files are licenced under the Lesser GPL, with the same type of terms saying that one can use a later version. My question is: Does this mean that I can change it to say it's released under GPL version 3 and later?
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