As it stands now it seems that _you_ have got sponsorship to do
work on lyx,
that place some requirements on the LyX Project.
Well, this means that a company pay someone to get some work done for
LyX,
which is very close to what happens with other projects, for example. If
the company had contributed the code, we would have had no problem
acknowledging it (would we?).
What we (as a community) want to see in exchange is a new, major and
well
written feature be added to LyX. This is then a fair exchange IMHO.
That said, I agree that discussing things first (even in a restricted
way)
is a good is a good practice and should have been done.
JMarc
