For some reason this doesn't seem to have made it to lyx-devel even
though it appears that Maarten posted there too.
Angus
--- Begin Message ---
Yes, you can have my permission to do so!
(off course!)
Keep up the great work!
Kind regards,
Maarten Afman, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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. I'm afraid I've had to trawl the web to get your address (the one we have
is out of date). If I've got the wrong guy then sorry!
A.
--- End Message ---
