On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:55:35 +0000 Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > That's fine with me: I hereby grant permission to licence my contributions to LyX under the GNU General Public Licence, version 2 or later. Eulogio Serradilla
