On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 07:06:07PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Strictly speaking, you are on shaky ground here in case that LyX > comes with any third-party GPLed licenced software. In that case, > the copyright holders of those software may insist that their stuff > be not combined and redistributed in one binary with Qt(Windows) or > xforms or whatever else.
I think it would be absolutely no problem if there were no Qt-Windows-binaries available on lyx.org. And we certainly can't prevent *cough* people from distributing precompiled binaries in other places. So it is possible for us to stay on the safe side. Whether this is needed or not certainly should be discussed but I see no unsolvable problems... > I can't really tell about Qt, but xforms sucks, IMO, in its general > behavior. I think GTK LyX would be a large improvement, and an > obviously legally unproblematic candidate for binary redistribution. Nobody seems to be actively working on a GTK port as far as I can see... Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
