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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