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Hi Robert,

Robert Osfield wrote:
> As far as I'm aware you can't relicense a LGPL library to GPL without
> permission from the copyright owners.  If osgCal GPL'd version is a
> derivative of the LGPL version then this looks like a possible
> copyright violation, unless it was sanctioned by the original
> copyright owners.

AFAIK, Loic was one of the original developers of osgCal so I guess they
did agree with Ruben on this - but that is only my speculation. I had
some discussion about this with both Ruben and Loic when Loic announced
that the Gna! version will be GPL-only but I have no idea what happened
between them two.

Anyhow - the relicensing wasn't my point. I was reacting to Vladimir's
comment about his desire to control the changes to his code. That is not
 really possible - I can take the osgCal code and publish my own
modifications under LGPL as, let's say, osgCal3 and he or Ruben couldn't
really do anything about that. The license allows it. The same is true
about OSG or any (L)GPL licensed code, BTW - you cannot prevent forks.


Jan
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