Re: [larsbj@ifi.uio.no: Re: copyright problem]

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 04:07:31PM +0000, Raja R Harinath wrote:
> > > I agree that by using XForms in development, and XForms *is* needed to
> > > compile and run LyX, we have implicitly allowd all users to link Lyx
> > > with XForms.
> > 
> > I don't see how it follows.  "we have implicitly allowed all users to
> > link LyX with XForms" does not imply "we have implicitly allowed
> > (re)distribution of the resulting LyX binaries", which I guess is the
> > issue at hand.
> 
> I'm sorry, but for me this sounds like like nitpicking. But I try to solve
> this. 
> 
> Boy, I wonder how many problemes with licenses we will find if we examine
> all packages to that detail.

A lot.

Regards,

	Joey

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