Re: Bug#4078: lynx should be in `contrib'
On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Michael Meskes wrote:
> I'd like to ask the other developers what they think. While I see th elogic
> behind your approach I still think LyX should be an official part of Debian.
Me too. However, I think that the way to accomplish that is to persuade
the XForms authors to release the sources under some kind of free license.
Or help promote a FreeXForms project.
>
> What happens if I recompile it statically? Would it go into the standard
> tree then?
>
I would still not be able to rebuild from scratch. Any user should be able
to rebuild any package in the official Debian distribution from the
original source plus our patches.
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