LGPLv3 for xalloc?

[Christian Egli]

Hi all

I would like to use xalloc in liblouis[1] a library (and a couple of
programs) for braille transcription. The main author just sprinkled the
library code with stuff like

foo = malloc(FOO_SIZE);
if (!foo)
   outOfMemory();

I would like to replace this with xmalloc. However it appears that
xalloc is GPL. Would it be possible to relicense this under LGPLv3?

Thanks
Christian

Footnotes: 
[1]  http://code.google.com/p/liblouis/
-- 
Christian Egli
Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland