[Biojava-dev] LGPL information forgotten at BlastLikeDataSetCollection.dtd ?

[Andreas Prlic]

We have about 50 people who ever did a CVS commit.
It will be hard to get permission for any change from everybody who  
holds copyright, even
if  there was an agreement to change the license.

Will be interesting to see how the Linux kernel will deal with the v3  
issue,
but I think Linus said that they are going to stay with v2.

Andreas





On 6 Nov 2007, at 17:37, george waldon wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a question here. It seems to me that to change the license  
> in biojava, like going from LGPL 2.1 to LGPL 3, we need the  
> agreement of all copyright holders, past and present (there is no  
> copyright transfer agreement in biojava). Is-this really feasible?
>
> George
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: biojava-dev-bounces at lists.open-bio.org [mailto:biojava-dev-
>> bounces at lists.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of Richard Holland
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 3:34 AM
>> To: Michael Heuer
>> Cc: biojava-dev at lists.open-bio.org; Steffen Moeller
>> Subject: Re: [Biojava-dev] LGPL information forgotten at
>> BlastLikeDataSetCollection.dtd ?
>>
>>
>>> The LICENSE file at biojava/LICENSE contains the text of version  
>>> 2.1 of
>>> the LPGL.
>>>
>>> We should make this explicit, by including "version 2.1",  
>>> "version 2.1
>> or
>>> any later version", "version 3", or "version 3 or any later  
>>> version" in
>>> the LICENSE file and all the license headers.
>>
>> my vote is for "version 2.1 or any later version".
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