> We provide these people with the ability to > produce their own packages tailored to their own systems. Uwe's funky Windows > installer fills exactly the same niche for the Windows system.
Windows is kind of different. Under linux, I need only one command to get a rpm package, windows? NSIS? No way. > By keeping the LyX project separate from the "Funky Installer" project, the > LyX > project can neatly sidestep all those licencing issues I actually have checked the license stuff before. Let me do it again, lyx -- not a problem python -- The gist of it is that Python is absolutely free, even for commercial use (including resale). There is no GNU-like "copyleft" restriction. ImageMagick: is free software: it is delivered with full source code and can be freely used, copied, modified and distributed. Its license is compatible with the GPL. Aspell is called GNU aspell Mingw: MinGW base runtime package is uncopyrighted and placed in the public domain. This basically means that you can do what you want with the code. Miktex: To the best of our knowledge, all software in this distribution is freely redistributable (libre, that is, not necessarily gratis), within the Free Software Foundation's definition and Debian Free Software Guidelines. And we are getting rid of ghostview. Finally, if *only* miktex is asking for adminstrative privelege, I certainly suggest that we remove it from the package. This guy is big, and a separate installation do make sense. Bo
