[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 07:59:14PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: >>Joseph Carter wrote: >>>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. >>[flamefest from Matthias Ettrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] >I hope the situation is not as grim as it may sound. Try talking to other >developers on the LyX list, not to Matthias. Yes, he founded the project, >and is working on KLyX, but I don't think he has any final say on the >matter. I believe that the other LyX Team are a lot nicer and a lot more >reasonable to discuss with.
In particular, I think Matthias's interest in KDE means that he is more concerned with making Debian's position over the licensing issues awkward than with making Lyx accessible... -- David/Kirsty Damerell. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~damerell/ w.sp.lic.#pi<largestprime>.2106 |___| "Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc." Consenting Mercrediphile.|___| | | | Or, in Klingon: "nucharghqangbogh chaH DISopchu' 'e' wItIv." | | |
