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Hi Angus,
I don't mind you or the LyX team putting my contribution under GPL2 or any
forthcoming GPL. Indeed, it's a long time ago that I made this contribution.
Best Regards
Heinrich Bauer
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From: Angus Leeming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Dienstag, 22. Februar 2005 15:56
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Cc: LyX devel
Subject: The LyX licence
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&conten
t-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
Equivalent URL: http://tinyurl.com/5nqhs
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