I am not sure whether any of my code is still used in LyX, so it is far from clear whether I have any rights at all. But, if you need, please feel free to add to the list of people which "grant permission to licence their contributions to LyX under the Gnu General Public Licence, version 2 or later."
best wishes,
marko
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, 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.
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&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup Equivalent URL: http://tinyurl.com/5nqhs
