Chris Cannam wrote: > I don't know whether you can reassign copyright in > Germany
No, you can't. > I assume there are substantial reasons not to license the library under > the LGPL, such as the fact that a commercial rival could then use it in > their own proprietary products. One could think about releasing substantial additions created by the Open Source Community under the LGPL. Julian would then be able to sell his code using a commercial license and could still use the additions and Open Source developers would not have to reassign copyrights. An alternative might be to release that additional code using dual licensing: GPL and LGPL. The main practical problem would be the mixture of GPL and LGPL code. > One practical idea might be to suggest that authors of big contributions > could (as an alternative to assigning copyright) retain their copyright > but license it under a very permissive licence such as the BSD one. Both of us obviously had the same idea. Cheers, Andreas
