Re: [Banshee-devel-list] Equalizer for GStreamer

[Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com>]

That's exactly what would need to be done. Contact anyone who has
touched the code in question and get written permission to either
re-license or dual-license the code as MIT or LGPL (MIT would be
preferred).

Good luck! :)

--Aaron


On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 17:26 +0000, Ivan N. Zlatev wrote:
> On 1/14/07, Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com> wrote:
> >
> > If it were LGPL, it'd be easier to work with. Why it's not LGPL, I don't
> > know. That's a pretty poor decision considering the nature of the code
> > (a plugin/library).
> 
> 
> Eh :-/.
> 
> May be I could try contacting the 3 people who worked on it and ask
> them for a relicense (MIT or in the worse case LGPL)? I am not sure
> how in particulare this should work, but i guess with the written
> permission of the authors or may be with a copy of each source code
> file with a MIT/LGPL header? My confusion is that the original author
> of the first version of the code for xmms is involved, but most of the
> code in the repository is completly different now. Thus should I ask
> for the original author to relicense his original code and then ask
> the others to relicense their derived work.
> 
> Licensing confuses me a lot!!! Also I believe that noone is going to
> nor has the time, to write an equalizer from scratch (otherwise said -
> reinvent the wheel). So it might be worth a shot.
> 
> Cheers,