Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Shaya Potter wrote:
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spotte>-----Original Message-----
spotte>From: John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.Arizona.EDU>
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spotte>> Lyx is currently in contrib.
spotte>> Lyx is licensed under the GPL (version 2) . It is dynamically
spotte>>linked against a non-free library (libforms) .
spotte>> According to the GPL and our interpretation of it in the KDE
spotte>>statement, this means we should not be distributing (binaries at least) of
spotte>>Lyx. For instance, these binaries use .h files from libforms.
spotte>> Unlike KDE, it may be all original code, so that a single change
spotte>>of license from the developers will do.
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spotte>Boy, Mathias Ehtrich is going to think we have something against him. :)
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spotte>Shaya
I had no idea he worked on both projects when I wrote that.
Someone just mentioned something about lyx being under the GPL, and I
looked into it.
John
John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
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