On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 14:06, Angus Leeming wrote: > Dear all, > > please excuse the personal email, but I'm trying to do something about the > messy state of the LyX licence and need your help. Moreover, as recent > correspondents on the lyx-devel list, I know that your email addresses are > working ;-) > > LyX is currently licenced under the GPL with a huge hole blowing it wide > apart > so that it could be linked against the closed source XForms library. See > http://www.lyx.org/about/license.php3. Legal opinion has it that this > exception does not apply only to the XForms library. Instead, anything and > everything is allowed to link against the LyX source code, defeating the > whole point and purpose of the GPL. Moreover, the exception is no longer > needed as XForms (and indeed Qt) are available under the GPL. > > To make a messy situation even messier, it's not even certain whether the > current license is valid at all, as the necessary permissions may not have > been obtained before the change was made to the original GPL. > > In light of all this, I asking whether I can have your permission to add your > names to http://www.lyx.org/blanket-permission.txt: > > "The following people hereby grant permission to licence their contributions > to LyX under the Gnu General Public Licence, version 2 or later." > > so that we can have a permanent record of those people who have contributed > code to LyX and who are happy for this code to be licenced under the GPL. > > Kind regards, > Angus > > ps, if you reply to lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org, we'll have a permanent record of > your response.
Yes, this is fine with me. - Martin
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