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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: The LyX licence
From:       Bernd Rellermeyer <bernd.rellermeyer () arcor ! de>
Date:       2005-04-10 11:06:24
Message-ID: 425908B0.1050708 () arcor ! de
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Yes, I grant permission to license my contribution under the GPL.

Angus Leeming schrieb:

>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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