Re: We distribute LyX?
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, David Starner wrote:
> Brian Ristuccia wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 10:42:00AM -0600, David Starner wrote:
> > >
> > > This permission certainly includes linking against GUI toolkits like
> > > XForms, Motif, GTK+, Qt or Win32. A copy of the GNU General Public
> > > License version 2 follows.
> > >
> >
> > It sounds like the author is giving explicit permission to link their
> > program against the non-free xforms.
>
> Yes, but we didn't buy that for KDE. This may be different because, to
> the best of my knowledge, they didn't use any other GPL code in it. I'm
> not sure whether the preamble was a change to the license or the
> author's interpretation of the GPL, or whether it would make any
> difference.
At least in this case, the lyx authors were prepared to say that
*explicitly*. The KDE authors only ever made that permission implicit.
(And it is the case that the KDE authors didn't even have the right to
give that permission with repesct to the GPL stuff they didn't write).
Jules
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