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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    RE: The LyX licence
From:       "Iselborn, Bernhard" <bernhard.iselborn () sap ! com>
Date:       2005-04-05 6:36:31
Message-ID: 144C17497D764148B3C6FFBBCCB9023C019A76F3 () dewdfe10 ! wdf ! sap ! corp
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Dear all,

  I do not have any problems with changes of the license while it is
kept free for usage and changes for everybody. So it's ok to add myself
to the mentioned file.

Best regards,
  Bernhard.

Dr. Bernhard Iselborn
Developer
BSG Manufacturing Industries
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Angus Leeming [mailto:leeming@lyx.org] 
> Sent: Dienstag, 5. April 2005 00:35
> To: Iselborn, Bernhard
> Subject: The LyX licence
> 
> Dear Bernhard,
> 
> please excuse the personal email, but I'm trying to do 
> something about 
> the messy state of the LyX licence and need your help. Once upon a 
> time you contributed various bits, so allow me to explain a little:
> 
> 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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