[license] [question] Consider switching to LGPL

[oleid]

I was wondering, if it would be possible to use the library under the terms of the LGPL instead of the GPL for open source projects.

Trouble is, that I don't want to use GPL, but more like BSD as a license for my stuff and I'm worried, that I had to relicense the code according to GPL when using this library. Thus, I'm trying to find out, if dynamic linking and LGPL would work.

[kjn]

I am not in a position to relax licensing terms of the whole lbzip2 software project as I am not the only author (copyright holder). However I am willing to allow use of parts of lbzip2 code of which I am the only author under a different free software license, such as LGPL.