Kritacolor library re-licensing

[Clarence Dang]

On Friday 09 June 2006 22:13, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> The kritacolor library and some of the associated plugins are now licensed
> under the GPL. We really want to provide this functionality for all of
> KOffice 2.0, and for that, we need to relicense to LGPL. I'm hereby
> officially asking for the consent of all the people who have their bit of
> code in these files for doing so.

Given that:

1. some other code in Krita is GPL derived and relicensing is out of your 
control

2. the kritacolor code was linked to this code at some point

doesn't that make the kritacolor code a derived work of 1.?  I'm not sure 
about the legality of relicensing 2. then.

But assuming this is an unfounded concern:

What are the chances of relicensing the rest of Krita to LGPL, given that 
Patrick Julien seems to have become reachable?