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

[george waldon]

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".