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Hello Angus.
You have my permission. :-)
Best regards.
Alejandro
> Dear all,
>
> please excuse the personal email, but I'm trying to do something about the
> messy state of the LyX licence and need your help.
>
> LyX is currently licenced under the GPL with a huge hole blowing it wide
> apart
> so that it could be linked against the closed source XForms library. See
> http://www.lyx.org/about/license.php3. Legal opinion has it that this
> exception does not apply only to the XForms library. Instead, anything and
> everything is allowed to link against the LyX source code, defeating the
> whole point and purpose of the GPL. Moreover, the exception is no longer
> needed as XForms (and indeed Qt) are available under the GPL.
>
> To make a messy situation even messier, it's not even certain whether the
> current license is valid at all, as the necessary permissions may not have
> been obtained before the change was made to the original GPL.
>
> In light of all this, I'm asking whether I can have your permission to add
> your names to http://www.lyx.org/blanket-permission.txt:
>
> "The following people hereby grant permission to licence their
> contributions
> to LyX under the Gnu General Public Licence, version 2 or later."
>
> so that we can have a permanent record of those people who have
> contributed
> code to LyX and who are happy for this code to be licenced under the GPL.
>
> Kind regards,
> Angus
>
> ps, if you reply to lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org, we'll have a permanent record
> of
> your response.
>
> pps. in case you're wondering where I got your email address from: it's
> listed
> in the LyX hall of fame:
> http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/lib/CREDITS?rev=1.53&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
> Equivalent URL: http://tinyurl.com/5nqhs
>
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