Edwin Leuven wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: >> Certainly, using it >> goes against the spirit of Open Source software and we have chosen, >> therefore, not to provide formal support for Ruurd's port. > > I find this statement hypocritical given the exception in LyX's license > for xforms which goes against the spirit of OS as well. > > (and in the same way as linking to qt-win32 IMO...) > > regards, ed.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion of course. Here, 'formal support' means merging changes made by Ruurd to get LyX to compile with the half-baked compiler (Borland) that was used to compile the qt/win32 library provided by Trolltech. Hypocritical or not, that is never going to happen for reasons other than licencing religion. Personally, I would be very happy if "The LyX Team" announced that all code contributed to LyX 1.4.x and after was subject to the pure GPL. I understand that such a hardening of the licence is indeed possible, but IANAL. Just my two cents. -- Angus
