Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

["Shaya Potter" <spotter@ymail.yu.edu>]

-----Original Message-----
From: John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.Arizona.EDU>

> Lyx is currently in contrib.
> Lyx is licensed under the GPL (version 2) .  It is dynamically
>linked against a non-free library (libforms) .
> According to the GPL and our interpretation of it in the KDE
>statement, this means we should not be distributing (binaries at least) of
>Lyx. For instance, these binaries use .h files from libforms.
> Unlike KDE, it may be all original code, so that a single change
>of license from the developers will do.


Boy, Mathias Ehtrich is going to think we have something against him. :)

Shaya