I want to start an OSS project but rather than do it completely from scratch I'd like to combine other, existing, OSS projects and target a specific platform. In this case there is an LPGL and MS-PL OSS project and the platform is Silverlight.
I have two pieces of software that I want to use the resulting library for. One is educational and the other could be commercial. As such, I'd like to get this right.
What pitfalls are there with this approach? What is a good way of going about this? DO I need to to inform existing project owners?
Thank you in advance. Scott