[Savannah-hackers] Re: Changing the licence of a project

[Mathieu Roy]

Debian User <address@hidden> said:

> Hello,
> 
> how can I change te licence of my project ? We are ready to release a
> new version but we want to change our licence from GPL to LGPL ?
> Is it possible ?

Legally, you cannot change the license of the previous versions.

But if every authors of every lines of code agree to change the license
for the new coming version, you can.

And since LGPL is GPL-compatible, this is ok for Savannah.


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Mathieu Roy
 
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