My original writing came in response to the "critical bug" at debian (license impurity). Lars included the paragraphs sometime while I was at Iowa State, which means sometime between 1996-1999. I don't know when the change to the current, legally wrong, claim of license was made, but I suspect if we checkout from 2000 we'll find it. (we don't actually have a searchable mailing list archive from the late 90's, do we?).
hawk
My personnel mail archive is containing a mail from 10 Oct 1998, sent from Asger Alstrup Nielsen as follows... (Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Subject: Re: copyright problem)
====== start of cite ======== > My personal opinion is that this is a simply oversight and no big deal. > To become legally correct all that is needed would be that you add the > exemption of linking against xforms to your copyright. Or even better > that you allow linking lyx against any non-free toolkit. > That's it. > > Would it be a problem to add this line? After all there are some who > want to remove lyx from Debian completely because if this minor glitch. > I won't comment on that here. :-)
I'm ready to change the license accordingly. Does anybody object to this change? After all, the license is technically invalid.
> P.S.: I'm no longer subsrcibed to this list so please CC me on your > answer.
Done.
> P.P.S: Are there plans for a GTK port? Or how far away are these? I > heard you are preparing for a 1.0 version so I guess it will take some > time. But it would be nice to be able to integrate it into the gnome.
There have been a few voices that want to do a GTK port. Personally, I'm game for a GTK-- port, but not really the gnome part of it at first. So, yes, there are plans. However, 1.0.0 will be XForms only, and pre1.0.0 should be out in a couple of days, and the final maybe in a week, if things go as we'd like ;-) 1.2 will be multi-toolkit, but we are talking about maybe two months, according to Jean-Marc ;-) (I think, it's probably 6 months, and if I have to be realistic, maybe we'll finish it in Italy next year :-)
Greets,
Asger
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Unfortunately it's one of the first mails I have. So it's a pointer to the correct time only.
Greets,
Stephan
