Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > >> Angus Leeming writes: >> | How much sense does this make anymore now that XForms is available >> | under the LGPL? Does sense have anything to do with it? Do the FSF >> | provide advice? > >> We should go back to what the default GPL blurb should be without >> exceptions. (IMHO) > | Well, I'd like that too, but can we do so? IANAL and nor are you. We | need some informed advice IMO.
GPL without the exception is what we had at the beginning... then we had some XForms controversy and since LyX was then written solely for XForms we added the special exception since every contributor expected LyX to be used with XForms anyway (and debian was a bit anal). So now XForms is LGPL and we can move back to GPL as that is _really_ what the license should be. Does LyX even work with non-LGPL xforms now-a-days? -- Lgb