On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 11:35:02AM +0100, Asger Kunuk Ottar Alstrup wrote: > On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > > Does the COPYING file apply to all the doc/ documentation that > > don't have any license in them? > > > > For example, I don't see any republishing or reuse license for > > lib/doc/Customization.lyx. > > It is a good question. When the documentation was written, the concept of > licenses for documentation was not really crystalised yet. So, the > question was never really asked and thus never answered. I believe that a > fair interpretation of intent is that the documentation is GPL. > > > I want to test a print-on-demand service. I want to submit the LyX > > documentation in a single PDF format for a single book. Is this okay? > > I belive that would be ok, but you might try to ask John Weiss who is the > main author of the documentation, and as such he would be the main > copyright holder,
In that case, I say that it's under the documentation-equivalent of the GPL. Why? Because waaaaaay back when I was editor-in-chief (like, 1996/97), I assumed that all of LyX, including docs, contributed templates, layouts, etc., would be under the GPL. And why did I read it like that? Because I took the license to apply to the entire sourcecode tarball. P.S.: The email address listed for me bounced because my old ISP died over 2 years ago. -- John Weiss
