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I grant permission to license my contributions to LyX under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.
Baruch Even
Angus Leeming wrote: | 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.
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