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Re: Intent to package xmemos



"Darren O. Benham" <gecko@debian.org> writes:

> On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 10:02:30AM +0300, KELEMEN Peter wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I came accross xmemos by Gilbert Therrien <gilbert@ican.net> a couple of
> > months ago and I found it useful for everyday work.  "The licence is
> > gnu", though it requires XForms (and IMHO it designates to go into
> > contrib once packaged, but feel free to correct me).
> > 
> > The LSM entry and README is attached.
> > 
> >   Fuji^
> Legally, you can not distribute GPL software that's been linked to xforms.
> To include it in Debian, it has to be compiled against fltk.  If it won't
> compile, it has to go the way of KDE.


Then why is LyX in Debian, and why has it been fore years?  What is
the reasoning behind your argument?


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