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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: The LyX licence
From:       Baruch Even <baruch () ev-en ! org>
Date:       2005-02-25 18:57:27
Message-ID: 421F7517.5080207 () ev-en ! org
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I grant permission to license my contributions to LyX under the GNU
General Public License, version 2 or later.

Baruch Even

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.

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