Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?
foka@debian.org:
>On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 07:59:14PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
>>Joseph Carter wrote:
>>>It's irrelevant. Lyx is free code using a license that does not allow us to
>>>link it with non-free code. We can't distribute it if they won't modify
>>>their license. But like KDE, they deserve a chance to do something about
>>>it.
>>That's what I feared. Bye-bye LyX.
>>[flamefest from Matthias Ettrich <ettrich@troll.no> ]
>I hope the situation is not as grim as it may sound. Try talking to other
>developers on the LyX list, not to Matthias. Yes, he founded the project,
>and is working on KLyX, but I don't think he has any final say on the
>matter. I believe that the other LyX Team are a lot nicer and a lot more
>reasonable to discuss with.
In particular, I think Matthias's interest in KDE means that he is more
concerned with making Debian's position over the licensing issues awkward
than with making Lyx accessible...
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