Re: Moving GNUstep applications to GPLv3

[Hubert Chan]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:09:37 +0200, Fred Kiefer <address@hidden> said:

> I support this change as well. We already have the choice for the user
> of the library in there:

>    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>    modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License
                                          ^^^^^^^

Just to make sure this gets fixed: between versions 2 and 2.1 of the
LGPL, the name was changed from the "Library" General Public License to
the "Lesser" General Public License.  Please make sure to change this
when updating to version 3.

Hubert

>    as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
>    the License, or (at your option) any later version.

> What I am not sure about is, whether we are able to change the license
> for old code, where the contributor is no longer in contact with us.
> Does anybody know about this case?

> Cheers, Fred