Gregory S. Stark wrote: > > John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This a kind of interesting looking package. It is GPL'd but > > depends on a no-source-available library. I just reread the relevant > > portions of the GPL, but I'm no Talmudic scholar. > > Can the GPL be properly applied to this ? > > > > http://ifb.bv.tu-berlin.de/JOCHEN/XSTAB/xstab.html > > All the author has to do is add something to the effect that > > ``As a special exception the software may be distributed linked against the > libforms library without including the source of the libforms library even > though the GPL would normally bar this, as long as the requirements of the > license are followed in every other respect.''
The LyX license says GPL ! (I donwloaded the diff file and hunted for debian/copyright) I am facing the same issue with two packages. It would be nice to settle it. -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/