On Tuesday 05 April 2005 00:55, Angus Leeming wrote: > Dear Robert, > > please excuse the personal email, but I'm trying to do > something about the messy state of the LyX licence and > need your help. Once upon a time you were a keen > contributer to the project, so allow me to explain a > little: > > 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.
Hi Angus. Of course you can add my name to the blanket-permission.txt document. I hereby grant permission to licence my contributions to LyX under the Gnu General Public Licence, version 2 or later. Good luck with the further LyX development. Robert van der Kamp
