Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>>> Certainly, using it goes against the spirit of Open Source >>>> software and we have chosen, therefore, not to provide formal >>>> support for Ruurd's port. > > Edwin> I find this statement hypocritical given the exception in LyX's > Edwin> license for xforms which goes against the spirit of OS as well. > > Jean-Marc> Except that xforms never had a non-commercial restriction > Jean-Marc> such as the one from Qt, as far as as know. This makes a > Jean-Marc> big difference. > > OK, I have to correct this statement, now that I found an original > xforms license, which says: > > Forms Library is not public domain. It is copyright (©) by T.C. Zhao > and Mark Overmars, with all published and unpublished rights reserved. > However, permission to use for non-commercial and not-for-profit > purposes is granted. You may not use xforms commercially (including > in-house and contract/consulting use) without contacting > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) for a license > arrangement. Use of xforms for the sole purpose of running a publically > available free software that requires it is not considered a commercial > use. > > > However, I know that the intent of the license was just to avoid > abuse, while Trolltech has a market share to defend.
Given that LyX 1.4.x requires XForms >= 1.0, and given that XForms 1.0 was released under the GPL, LyX currently uses only GPL-compatible libraries. That is, there is no further need for the relaxed license. Does the FSF not have any advise on what to do in such a situation? -- Angus
