Leuven, E. wrote: >> We had a lawyer, Richard Hawkins, who explained that this was >> indeed how the legal world would interpret this licence. >> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lyx-devel&m=104635662605797&w=2 > > a good reason for keeping the license as it is...
My tidy mind still finds explicit mention of a closed source XForms ridiculous. If the licence really does mean "In addition, as a special exception, the LyX Team gives permission to link the code of this program with any third party, closed source library and distribute linked combinations including the two." then I fail to say why we don't say that. However, if we really do mean that 'special exception is given to link against XForms' and as XForms is no longer closed source, then the special exception is no longer needed and can be removed and lyx reverts to a 'pure' GPL licence. -- Angus
