Definitely - you can always redistribute LGPL/GPL with or without your changes, provided you adhere by the licence (which basically means provide the source).
Always best to try and work with the original project of course - provided the original author is still reading email and they didn't host the project on a personal site (making it hard for you to do the same). That's one advantage of tigris/savannah/apache/sourceforge. Others can pick it up - shame Sourceforge is so damn slow :) Anyone tried out their SVN yet? Hen On 4/18/06, Sven Schliesing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But one could simply release the fixed version of jmimemagic "outside" > of commons. So there would be no problem, would it? > At least until the original author gives it's ok to "commonize" it. > > Sven > > > That's not possible. Since JMimeMagic is LGPL, any modifications must > > result in a library that is also LGPL. As part of the ASF, all Commons > > components must have the Apache License. > > > > I do think something along the same lines as JMimeMagic would make a good > > Commons component (unless we already have one lurking somewhere that I'm not > > aware of). If someone happens to know either of the authors and would like > > to open a dialogue with them about either changing the license or possibly > > coming to the ASF, I think that would be worthwhile. > > > > -- > > Martin Cooper > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
