On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:57:30AM +0100, 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.
You have my permission to remove my name entirely. It was a very small contribution anyway and the list is getting huge. Hans -- Jabber IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
