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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: The LyX licence
From:       Stefano Ghirlanda <stefano.ghirlanda () unibo ! it>
Date:       2005-02-28 11:28:14
Message-ID: 87y8d853g1.fsf () mela ! psice ! unibo ! it
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Angus Leeming <leeming@lyx.org> writes:

> 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.

My contribution record to LyX is not very impressive (and I believe it
was always under the GPL). I hereby grant all necessary permissions,
for the maerial that concerns me, to make LyX fully available under
the GPL, version 2 or later.

-- 
Stefano   | Department of Psychology, University of Bologna
Ghirlanda | Interdisciplinary cultural research, Stockholm University
            http://www.intercult.su.se/~stefano
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