> "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 see why we don't say that.
because not everybody agrees on this (andre in particular if i remember correctly), and the only way to test it is to go to court? > 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. but i thought that license changes (like reverting to the GPL) need to be accepted by every contributor (which prevented us changing the license to the general version you suggest above in the first place)
