[Bf-committers] Can BGE be relicensed?

[Antony Riakiotakis]

It's a big mess of law and software politics, as usual.

Under Lesser GPL http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html
 Terms and conditions, it says:

"10. Each time you redistribute the Library (or any work based on the
Library), the recipient automatically receives a license from the
original licensor to copy, distribute, link with or modify the Library
subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further
restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.
You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties with
this License. "

Where "you" is the person who received the copy or who is
redistributing the copy (licensee). Bottom line, the copyright
holder/original licensor (developers) can still enforce compliance.

I still don't understand why this is relevant with anything in this
case since the initial case was to do with DRM as can be seen in this
(biased in my opinion) article
http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/vlc-for-ios-likely-be-pulled-from-app-store-because-of-incompatibility-with-source-code-gpl-2010112/.
So the licence change in fact changed...nothing? Maybe that's the
reason why the VLC dev replied "maybe" when asked if VLC will return
to appstore.

So, BGE content does not need to be open, and license change will not
prohibit lawsuits. Is there at least any specific appstore rule that
explicitly lifts the restriction of installation on 5 devices for LGPL
software or not? Links please.