We've got the founder on board ;-)
Matthias makes a pertinent point about whether we need to jump through
these licence-changing hoops at all, but nonetheless gives us
permission to add his name to blanket-permission.txt.
Angus
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On Monday 28 February 2005 14:05, you wrote:
> On Monday 28 February 2005 12:52, you wrote:
> > On Saturday 26 February 2005 02:18, Angus Leeming wrote:
> > > Dear Matthias,
> > >
> > > please excuse the personal email, but I'm trying to do something
> > > about the messy state of the LyX licence and need your help.
> >
> > Frankly, I don't even see the problem. We are talking about an
> > exception to the GPL here, done in addition to the GPL. Of course
> > removing that exception is and was permitted at all times.
> > Otherwise LyX' license hadn't even been GPL compatible.
> >
> > Matthias
>
> Thanks for responding. I'll admit that we didn't ask the lawyer
> whether we could remove the exception at any time. I'll do that.
>
> However, given that neither of us *are* lawyers, can I still ask
> whether I have your permission to add your name to
> http://www.lyx.org/blanket-permission.txt:
Sure.
>
> We've got to the point where we have only one or two significant
> contributers left to reply. I think we'd all feel happier at this end
> if we didn't have to rely on someone's 'interpretation' (lawyer or
> not) of whether or not we could change the licence.
>
> Regards,
> Angus
Matthias
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