On Fri Jul 4 2003 12:25, Andre Poenitz wrote: > The legal difference is that the xforms exceptions has been in there all > the time and all code was contributed to GPL + xforms exception, not to > GPL + Qt exception.
i wasn't referring to the legal difference but to the (lack of a) moral difference > The moral difference is that the xforms exception enables LyX on a lot of > *nix, the Qt exception is a special favour for MS Windows alone. this is not a moral but a practical difference. another way of looking at this is that the xforms exception enables lyx for thousands of people on a lot of *nix, where the qt exception would enable lyx for millions of people. moreover, many of these *nix are as proprietory as windows so really, i don't see a moral difference between the xforms exception and extending the license to have an exception for qt-win just my 2c, edwin
