Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 01:08:28PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > Craig Sanders wrote:
> > > imo, we should grant Lyx the same courtesy we did KDE. send them a
> > > request to change their license, and give them some time (say a few weeks
> > > rather than the months that KDE got) to change. if they ignore the
> > > request or choose not to change their license then we have to yank the
> > > software.
> >
> > I wonder if you know that LyX is founded by the same person who has
> > founded KDE some years later. Not that this has to imply anyghing...
>
> It's irrelevant. Lyx is free code using a license that does not allow us to
> link it with non-free code. We can't distribute it if they won't modify
> their license. But like KDE, they deserve a chance to do something about
> it.
That's what I feared. Bye-bye LyX.
Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> From: Matthias Ettrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: LICENSES [was: Re: Have you seen this?]
> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >LyX is in contrib. I don't have it installed, but if it is licensed
> >under the GPL, then you're probably right, and you're free to file a bug
> >report against it. If you don't want to do so, then I'll check it out
> >and file the bug report myself if needed.
>
> LyX is buggy, it has licensing problems (unless you compile it yourself).
>
> Yeah, file the bug report, highest priority level due to the ethical
> implications. Remove almost 4 years hard work of more than 20 people who offer
> the (right now) only usable free document processor for unix.
>
> Clearly LyX has been written by scratch but we in the LyX team accepted GPL'ed
> patches without signed written permissions of the authors to distribute
> binaries linked to XForms. Shame on us, not LyX has licensing problems!
>
> I will remove it from my hard disk immediately. Damn, four years hacking for
> me
> and a aresult it's no longer usable for Debian....
>
> What a great day! Luckily I have an invitation for dinner to celebrate it :-)
>
> It's getting harder and harder to take Debian serious.
>
>
> Matthias
Regards,
Joey
--
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth
