My reading of his message was that he did not write it, but had written similar functions in the past; but that in this case he had modified it from code in Wget. In that case, I don't believe he could release it under the LGPL; he'd need to get permission from the copyright holders (the FSF).
-mjc On 05/18/2010 08:35 AM, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: > I don't see any problem, you have written it so you choose the license. > Anyway, if you don't have a specific reason, isn't be better to use GPL > instead of LGPL? :-) > > Cheers, > Giuseppe > > > > Crazy Pete <[email protected]> writes: > >> Hi everyone! >> >> I have created the following project: >> >> http://www.petenix.org/dolomedes.html >> >> and specifically the portion of the src in urls.cpp posted here: >> >> http://codepad.org/EagJ1YnB >> >> is taken in part from wget-1.11.4/src/url.c +367 >> >> I have written this sort of escaping function before without looking at wget >> source or i wouldn't even ask, but this function is written specifically to >> pass the tests mentioned in that wget source citation and i want to know if >> it will bother anyone if i (and i will credit wget of course) release this >> dolomedes project LGPL instead of GPL? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Crazy Pete -- Micah J. Cowan http://micah.cowan.name/
