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Re: [ettrich@troll.no: Re: copyright problem]



On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Michael Meskes wrote:

> How about this one?
> 
> I told him I would remove the first sentence but other than that it looks
> okay to me.

looks good to me, with or without the first sentence.  

it's true, anyway.  the GPL is often a source of misunderstanding and
confusion.  witness KDE, for example.

if ettrich is willing to write this for LyX, then maybe he'll do the same
for KDE?  i hope so.

> Michael
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Matthias Ettrich <ettrich@troll.no> -----
> If we do something like this, I'd rather suggest a text like:
> 
>   The GPL is often a source of missunderstanding and confusion. As we
>   understand the license, redistribution and use of LyX in source and
>   binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted without any
>   additional conditions. Even more, we would explicitely like to encourage
>   people to distribute LyX in both source and binary forms. This permission
>   certainly includes linking against GUI toolkits like XForms, Motif, GTK, Qt
>   or Win32.
> 
> 
> If that is still ok for Debian, I could live with it. Michael?
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----

craig

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craig sanders


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