License and adopting software

Jonathan Chen jonc at chen.org.nz
Mon Dec 11 04:21:43 UTC 2017


On 11 December 2017 at 17:17, blubee blubeeme <gurenchan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I like some old software that's <= GPL2 but it seems like the original
> developer is not and have not done any work on the software sine mid 2000.
>
> I'd like to pick up the project, fix bugs BUT i'd like to migrate from GPL
> to BSD license.
>
> How does one go about doing that? I have seen the GPL code but it could be
> re-written how would that affect me re-writing the code with a new copy
> center license?

You basically have to get the original author to reassign copyright to
you; after which you can do whatever you like to it. If you're basing
your new work on the original work, you have to respect the LICENCE
that it came with.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>


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