Distributing under LGPL?

[jpcima]

Hello @bisqwit. Are you open to an idea of permitting distribution of ADLMIDI under LGPL or another license more permissive than GPL is?

There has been work on some library projects, by primarly @Wohlstand and myself, reusing the ADLMIDI code. [1] [2]. By virtue of the GPL license, these are derivative works of ADLMIDI, and by transitivity so are all projects touching these libraries by linking other than runtime loading.

Some projects are reluctant to integration of GPL-licensed code (as the latest example, dxx-rebirth). Considering that our work is outside of the initial scope of ADLMIDI, maybe a change of license would now make some sense that it didn't at the creation of ADLMIDI. We used to also be bound to GPL by Dosbox before, but that is no longer the case as it can be substituted with a LGPL-licensed NukedOPL3.

For a similar licensing reason as cited, Nuke.YKT has previously accepted to relicense his NukedOPL3 from Chocolate Doom, from GPL to LGPL to permit adoption in some projects.

So I ask kindly if you would be willing to permit such use of ADLMIDI. Thank you.