I am not sure there is any of my code left, but in case there is, you hereby have my permission.
Cheers, Kalle On Tuesday 22 February 2005 15:55, you 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. > > 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'm 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. > > pps. in case you're wondering where I got your email address from: it's > listed in the LyX hall of fame: > http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/lib/CREDITS?rev=1.53&conte >nt-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup Equivalent URL: http://tinyurl.com/5nqhs -- Matthias Kalle Dalheimer President & CEO Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB Platform-independent software solutions
