"Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I noticed by coincidence that there is a "critical"
> bug in the Debian package for LyX regarding the
> copyright.
>
> The bug is number 32299.
>
> The question is whether the clarification of the
> licensing question we have put on the web page is
> a change to the license or an attempt at a
> clarification. I can confirm that it is the
> latter. We have not changed the license as such.
>
> I have not followed the discussion on the debian
> legal mailing list, so I'm not sure what the
> problem is regarding distributing LyX with
> Debian.
Basically there is two problems.
First, Debian (if I understand correctly) hasn't usually accepted the
"legal nullification" theory. Currently being a Debian user and not a
developer, I'm not really qualified to answer as to how they'll accept
it in this case.
Second, nothing like the clarification of the license is included in the
Debian copyright file. Having the clarification included in the
copyright file would be a great improvement.
> In other words: We are not ready to change the
> license as such, because we feel it would make
> things worse (invention yet another license), but
> we are ready to clarify our interpretation of the
> license.
Probably a bit out of line here, but have you checked out the LGPL or
the Artistic License? They would appear to work similarily, but
unquestionably allow the code to be linked to XForms.
As for the clarification, that probably won't be neccesarry. The
clarification is everything it needs to be, now it just needs to be
added to the copyright file.
Has anyone checked out porting LyX to Fltk? It supposed to be somewhat
compatable with XForms. Checking out the difficulty of that port and
possibly working on that is on my list of projects to do.
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