[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Licensing of liblouis tools and xml2brl

  • From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:45:11 +0200

Hello,

Christian Egli, le Wed 07 Oct 2009 11:38:12 +0200, a écrit :
> On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 10:12 -0500, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > I agree in general. Despite my dislike of the GPL I think it is phobably
> > the best way to go for the tools and xml2brl now.
> 
> Am I correct in my assumption that this means that the copyright
> holders, i.e. the two Johns agree to change the license of the tools to
> GPL?

As I already said in a previous post, while it's a good idea to ask
them, there is no strict need to: by licensing their work under LGPL,
they already allowed any relicensing into GPL, see term 3. of the
license.

Samuel
For a description of the software and to download it go to
http://www.jjb-software.com

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