Updating from LGPL 2 to LGPL 3

[Remco]

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 15:57, John Moser <john.r.moser at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you a maintainer of the package or an actual code contributor for the
> project?
>
> Raising the license seems silly if you're not a core dev or significant
> contributor.  *GPL3 were driven by politics and contain language not well
> tested in court (particularly, the completely ineffective patent language);
> so a third-party relicense of someone else's code would seem political and
> ill-conceived.

It would be ill-conceived regardless of your opinion of the new GPL.
Nobody else but the developers decide on the license, simple as that.

-- 
Remco