> > > if you have to give out an unlimited, royalty free license to your > > > work, I think it's not unfair to say that you have given up your > > > copyright protection. As the copyright holder, it's true that you > > > can relicense it to suit other licenses, but it's not clear to me > > > that you can clearly make a copyright infringment case if there is > > > an LGPLed copy in the public. > > Well if somebody uses my work in a way either not permitted by LGPL > > or explicitly permited by me through some other license I can't see > > why I can't sue. > > But the point I'm trying to make is that I can be in violation of > your RELICENSE. I can make a claim that YOUR work is > covered by the *GPL, so that your RElicense to me doesn't apply. > If this holds, then my original statement that you gave up your > copyright protection holds.
I'm not sure I follow you. Yes, if my work is covered by *GPL, you can ALWAYS use it if you follow the conditions in the license. However if you for some reason can't or won't, you can ask me for a relicense. If you don't I can sue you for violating the *GPL. If you do, you have to follow the conditions of the new license otherwise I can sue you. Of course, if you later decide that oh well following the *GPL is not that bad in comparison after all, it is possible and even probably that I can't sue you for breaking the relicense as long as you follow the *GPL. The point it that you must show that you follow either *GPL or my relicense in order to not be a copyright infringer. You don't have to follow both though.
