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

[Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu>]

Michael Meskes <meskes@usa.net> writes:
> Would this be enough for LyX? I think so.
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Lars Gullik Bjønnes <larsbj@ifi.uio.no> -----
> 
> To: lyx@via.ecp.fr
> Cc: meskes@usa.net
> Subject: Re: copyright problem
> From: larsbj@ifi.uio.no (Lars Gullik Bjønnes)
> Date: 11 Oct 1998 19:17:04 +0200
> 
> [...]
> 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.
> [...]
> ----- End forwarded message -----

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.

- Hari
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