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floscher opened this issue May 22, 2015 · 3 comments
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Switch license to current LGPLv3? #8

floscher opened this issue May 22, 2015 · 3 comments

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Currently the source code is under the GNU Library General Public License, which has been superseded by the GNU Lesser General Public License.

@arenn would it be ok for you, if the license would be updated to the LGPLv3, at least for the changes that I've made and those that I will make in my fork of your repository.

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arenn commented May 22, 2015

As far as I'm concerned, go ahead. I believe these licenses generally
specify that you can use "any later version" of the GNU license in
question. I will say that since I adapted it from the code in the GNU C
Library, I don't own the underlying, original copyright and thus can't
speak for the FSF. I will look at this further in the future. Thanks, Aaron.

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Florian Schäfer [email protected]
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Currently the source code is under the GNU Library General Public License,
which has been superseded by the GNU Lesser General Public License
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.0.en.html.

@arenn https://github.com/arenn would it be ok for you, if the license
would be updated to the LGPLv3
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.en.html, at least for the changes
that I've made and those that I will make in my fork of your repository
https://github.com/floscher/java-getopt.


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Thank you for answering so unbelievably fast ;).
I've now changed the license at least for my master-branch. If you want, I could also open a pull request against your master branch containing the new license.

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arenn commented May 22, 2015

You could do that, but I haven't really mastered github yet. I've only been
using it as an internet backup for my personal repositories. I spent too
much time back in the day using CVS and have never really fully figured out
the world's shift to git. Cheers, Aaron.

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Florian Schäfer [email protected]
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Thank you for answering so unbelievably fast ;).
I've now changed the license at least for my master-branch
https://github.com/floscher/java-getopt/tree/master. If you want, I
could also open a pull request against your master branch containing the
new license.


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floscher added a commit to floscher/java-getopt that referenced this issue May 23, 2015
The LGPLv3 is a successor of the Library General Public License used previously.
See also arenn#8 for discussion about it.
floscher added a commit to floscher/java-getopt that referenced this issue May 23, 2015
The LGPLv3 is a successor of the Library General Public License used previously.
See also arenn#8 for discussion about it.
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