On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 07:59:14PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > 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.
Possibly, but not just yet, see below... > 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 Lyx does not go away just because there is a bug against it. When the bug is filed the maintainer has reasonable opportunity to fix it, or if not possible, to forward it upstream and let the upstream maintainers take a crack at it. Matthias needs someone to smack him upside with an iron cluebat, several times. We gave KDE a chance to fix their problem. We'll give the same to Lyx. Matthias is TRYING to provoke us. I for one refuse to be. But I'll file the bug against ftp.debian.org to remove lyx if I must myself. It hasn't come to that yet.
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