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Hi Angus,
you have my permission.
Ruurd
--- Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, Ruurd. It appears that I forgot you from the original mail shot
> (you're not listed in CREDITS which is something we should fix ASAP.)
>
> 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.
>
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