Re: The LyX licence
Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote: >>>I forgot to ask you to drop an >>>email to the lyx-devel list stating explicitly that you agree to >>>licence you contribution under the terms of the Gnu General Public >>>Licence version 2 or later. > > Here you are: > > I hereby license my contribution to LyX under the Gnu General Public > Licence version 2 or later. Thanks, Jean-Pierre. -- Angus
Re: The LyX licence
>>From: Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>I forgot to ask you to drop an >>email to the lyx-devel list stating explicitly that you agree to >>licence you contribution under the terms of the Gnu General Public >>Licence version 2 or later. Here you are: I hereby license my contribution to LyX under the Gnu General Public Licence version 2 or later. I checked about the status of the French translation of the GPL: currently under progress, so the text should be in english for French users. -- Jean-Pierre
Re: The LyX licence
Janus Sandsgaard wrote: On Friday 10 June 2005 10:46, you wrote: I forgot to ask you to drop an email to the lyx-devel list stating >>explicitly that you agree to licence you contribution under the terms >>of the Gnu General Public Licence version 2 or later. I hereby licence my contributions to LyX under the Gnu General Public Licence version 2 or later. Thank you. Can I have a spellcheck-as-you-go feature for LyX now? ;-) Sure. Just roll your sleeves up and contribute a little more :-P Janus Sandsgaard Angus
Re: The LyX licence
On Friday 10 June 2005 10:54, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > You have to contribute it first :-) I'd be happy to contribute with a manual for it! :-) -j -- Roskilde University, Denmark. Department of Technology and Social Science. International Development Studies. ESST - Society, Science and Technology in Europe.
Re: The LyX licence
Janus Sandsgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I hereby licence my contributions to LyX under the Gnu General Public Licence | version 2 or later. > | Can I have a spellcheck-as-you-go feature for LyX now? ;-) You have to contribute it first :-) -- Lgb
Re: The LyX licence
On Friday 10 June 2005 10:46, you wrote: > I forgot to ask you to drop an > email to the lyx-devel list stating explicitly that you agree to > licence you contribution under the terms of the Gnu General Public > Licence version 2 or later. I hereby licence my contributions to LyX under the Gnu General Public Licence version 2 or later. Can I have a spellcheck-as-you-go feature for LyX now? ;-) Janus Sandsgaard -- Roskilde University, Denmark. Department of Technology and Social Science. International Development Studies. ESST - Society, Science and Technology in Europe.
Re: The LyX licence
I hereby agree to license my contribution to the LyX's inataller, in the form of spanish translation, under the terms of the Gnu General Public Licence version 2 or later. Nicolás
Re: The LyX licence
Hereby I agree to license my LyX contributions under the terms of the Gnu General Public Licence version 2 or later. Uwe Stöhr
Re: The LyX licence
Yes, I grant permission to license my contribution under the GPL. Angus Leeming schrieb: 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.
Re: The LyX licence
I grant permission to licence my contributions to LyX under the Gnu General Public Licence, version 2 or later. Edmar Wienskoski PS: Keep up the good work !! 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. Once upon a time you were a keen contributer to the LyX 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. Kind regards, Angus ps, if you reply to lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org, we'll have a permanent record of your response.
Re: The LyX licence
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 01:23, Angus Leeming wrote: | 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. yes, of course, please add my name to the list! Kind regards, Thomas Pundt -- --- Thomas Pundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pundt.de/
Re: The LyX licence
Dear LyX developers, from the text of Angus's message I'd say you were sending these messages before. I moved last July and my old address @cs.wm.edu is not that useful any more. Fortunately, Angus has found my other address. I do grant permission to LyX to use any of my (small) contributions under BSD or GPL license. Whichever you decide suits you better. Best regards, Zvezdan Petkovic
Re: The LyX licence
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 22:02 +, Angus Leeming wrote: > Dear aGraham, > 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." Yes, you have my permission to add my name to the blanket-permission list. -- Regards Graham
Re: The LyX licence
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
RE: The LyX licence
Dear all, I do not have any problems with changes of the license while it is kept free for usage and changes for everybody. So it's ok to add myself to the mentioned file. Best regards, Bernhard. Dr. Bernhard Iselborn Developer BSG Manufacturing Industries Development Area Product SAP AG Neurottstr. 16 69190 Walldorf Germany T +49/6227/7-61578 F +49/6227/78-29076 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sap.de > -Original Message- > From: Angus Leeming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Dienstag, 5. April 2005 00:35 > To: Iselborn, Bernhard > Subject: The LyX licence > > Dear Bernhard, > > 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 contributed various bits, 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. > > Kind regards, > Angus > > ps, if you reply to lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org, we'll have a permanent > record of your response. >
Re: The LyX licence --- a gentle nudge
Angus Leeming a Ãcrit : 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. Hi, I'm not sure if this will be (legally) enough, but I agree with the change, and thus by this mail grant permission to license my contributions to LyX under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later. Regards to all. Pascal AndrÃ.
Re: The LyX licence --- a gentle nudge
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:57:30AM +0100, 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." agreed Hans Bausewein
Re: The LyX licence --- a gentle nudge
On Mar 30, 2005, at 4:57 AM, Angus Leeming wrote: 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. Yes, you may add my name to the blanket-permission for LyX code. Good luck with the permissions cleanup and the rest of the LyX project. -- Ronald
Re: The LyX licence --- a gentle nudge
Hello, Angus Leeming wrote: 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." I can't remember what I contributed to LyX, but I grant this permission for whatever I contributed to LyX. -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | We build the crazy compilers | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Compiler Manufacturer|
Re: The LyX licence --- a gentle nudge
Angus Leeming wrote: 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. There still be a few lines of code that I wrote once upon a time that are in use. If so, I'm happy for those to be distributed under GPL. Carl -- Dr. Carl Ollivier-Gooch, P.Eng. Voice: +1-604-822-1854 Associate Professor Fax: +1-604-822-2403 Department of Mechanical Engineering email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of British Columbia http://www.mech.ubc.ca/~cfog Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 http://tetra.mech.ubc.ca/ANSLab/
Re: The LyX licence --- a gentle nudge
Hans Bausewein wrote: > You have my permission to remove my name entirely. > It was a very small contribution anyway and the list is > getting huge. Hi, Hans. Just to be sure I understand you: * you contributed code to add the "Case sensitive" and "match whole word" checkbuttons in the XForms search dialog? * you'd like me to remove your name from the CREDITS file? http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/lib/CREDITS?rev=1.61&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup Equivalent URL: http://tinyurl.com/4mwtx I see that this functionality was present when LyX 0.12 was released so your contribution pre-dates my involvement with LyX! Regards, Angus
Re: The LyX licence --- a gentle nudge
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:57:30AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > "The following people hereby grant permission to licence their > contributions to LyX under the Gnu General Public Licence, version 2 > or later." The Written Word, Inc. hereby grants permission to license our contributions to LyX under the GNU General Public Licence, version 2 or later. -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: The LyX licence --- a gentle nudge
Permission granted :-) El mié, 30-03-2005 a las 10:57 +0100, Angus Leeming escribió: > 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. > -- Edscott Wilson Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: The LyX licence --- a gentle nudge
Hi Angus, I would be more than happy for my contribution to be licensed under the GPL. Regards, Bernard On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 10:57 +0100, 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. > -- Bernard Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: The LyX licence --- a gentle nudge
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:57:30AM +0100, 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. You have my permission to remove my name entirely. It was a very small contribution anyway and the list is getting huge. Hans -- Jabber IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The LyX licence
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Am Samstag, 19. März 2005 18:21 schrieb Angus Leeming: >> Wißt du, warum Ihr guter Ehemann nicht geantwortet >> hat? > > _Weißt_ du, warum _dein_ _geschätzter_ Ehemann (or better: Gatte) noch > nicht geantwortet hat? Ach. Vielen Dank. -- Angus
Re: The LyX licence
Am Samstag, 19. März 2005 18:21 schrieb Angus Leeming: > Wißt du, warum Ihr guter Ehemann nicht geantwortet > hat? _Weißt_ du, warum _dein_ _geschätzter_ Ehemann (or better: Gatte) noch nicht geantwortet hat? Jürgen
Re: The LyX licence
Angus Leeming wrote: > On Saturday 19 March 2005 06:58, Kornelia Poenitz wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:55:35PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: >> > 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." >> >> You may do so if you wish. >> >> Konni > > Vielen Dank, Konni. Wißt du, warum Ihr guter Ehemann nicht geantwortet > hat? Ahhh. I see he has after all. Must read all mail before posting replies... -- Angus
Re: The LyX licence
On Saturday 19 March 2005 06:58, Kornelia Poenitz wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:55:35PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > > 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." > > You may do so if you wish. > > Konni Vielen Dank, Konni. Wißt du, warum Ihr guter Ehemann nicht geantwortet hat?
Re: The LyX licence
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:55:35PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > 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." You may do so if you wish. Konni
Fwd: Re: The LyX licence
--- Begin Message --- You certainly have my permission. Thanks, Alkis On Feb 22, 2005, at 6:55 AM, 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. 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 --- End Message ---
Re: The LyX licence
Angus Leeming wrote: [...] > 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." > Of course; although I dunno whether any of my bugs are still present in LyX :-) yves
Re: The LyX licence
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. My contribution record to LyX is not very impressive (and I believe it was always under the GPL). I hereby grant all necessary permissions, for the maerial that concerns me, to make LyX fully available under the GPL, version 2 or later. -- Stefano | Department of Psychology, University of Bologna Ghirlanda | Interdisciplinary cultural research, Stockholm University http://www.intercult.su.se/~stefano
Fwd: Re: The LyX licence
We've got the founder on board ;-) Matthias makes a pertinent point about whether we need to jump through these licence-changing hoops at all, but nonetheless gives us permission to add his name to blanket-permission.txt. Angus --- Begin Message --- On Monday 28 February 2005 14:05, you wrote: > On Monday 28 February 2005 12:52, you wrote: > > On Saturday 26 February 2005 02:18, Angus Leeming wrote: > > > Dear Matthias, > > > > > > please excuse the personal email, but I'm trying to do something > > > about the messy state of the LyX licence and need your help. > > > > Frankly, I don't even see the problem. We are talking about an > > exception to the GPL here, done in addition to the GPL. Of course > > removing that exception is and was permitted at all times. > > Otherwise LyX' license hadn't even been GPL compatible. > > > > Matthias > > Thanks for responding. I'll admit that we didn't ask the lawyer > whether we could remove the exception at any time. I'll do that. > > However, given that neither of us *are* lawyers, can I still ask > whether I have your permission to add your name to > http://www.lyx.org/blanket-permission.txt: Sure. > > We've got to the point where we have only one or two significant > contributers left to reply. I think we'd all feel happier at this end > if we didn't have to rely on someone's 'interpretation' (lawyer or > not) of whether or not we could change the licence. > > Regards, > Angus Matthias --- End Message ---
Fwd: Re: The LyX licence
--- Begin Message --- Hi Angus, you have my permission. Ruurd --- Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Ruurd. It appears that I forgot you from the original mail shot > (you're not listed in CREDITS which is something we should fix ASAP.) > > 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. > __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail --- End Message ---
Fwd: Re: The LyX licence
For some reason this doesn't seem to have made it to lyx-devel even though it appears that Maarten posted there too. Angus --- Begin Message --- Yes, you can have my permission to do so! (off course!) Keep up the great work! Kind regards, Maarten Afman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. pps. I'm afraid I've had to trawl the web to get your address (the one we have is out of date). If I've got the wrong guy then sorry! A. --- End Message ---
Re: The LyX licence
Dear all Sorry for my late. I am very glad to license my contributions to Lyx under the Gnu General Public Licence, version 2 or later. Best Regards Huang Ying
Re: The LyX licence
Angus Leeming pravi: 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." I thought this was obvious, but yes, I do. -- Regards, Roman
Re: The LyX licence
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCH3UXHCar6qtHRZgRAnorAJ9CVk3f02jIhRLbnlYZg2gWh3It6ACgzWPB iQCbEAMAxMJMDkud9m9YFG0= =wLZG -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: The LyX licence
Hello Angus, Angus Leeming wrote: 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." I am not sure if my permission is needed at all, since as far as I recall, my contribution was not source-code but just some configuration stuff for a specific LaTeX-package. Anyway, if you still need my permission, consider it granted with this mail. (Cc: to lyx-devel) Cheers Bernd -- "I'm a doctor, I am supposed to tell people where it hurts (so I can fix it and make money)." -- Mark S.
The LyX licence
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. I'm afraid I've had to trawl the web to get your address (the one we have is out of date). If I've got the wrong guy then sorry! A.
Re: The LyX licence
Dear Angus, Of course you have my permission to add my name to the specified LyX webpage. Afterall, Gnu GPL is the de facto standard licence to the OpenSource world, and LyX itself should be licenced under the GPL. Best regards, Panayotis "PAP" Papasotiriou Angus Leeming wrote: 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.
The LyX Licence --- Thank you
Guys, I've rather lost track of who I've thanked for responding to my request. Rest assured however, that your response is carefully logged in http://www.lyx.org/blanket-permission.txt. So far we've had 55 responses to my mailshot, leaving 48 who are listed in the LyX CREDITS hall of fame but who are yet to respond to my letter. Of those, only a few might be considered as "significant" contributors able to affect our ability to resolve this licencing mess. So, keep your fingers crossed and wish us luck! Many thanks to you all, Angus
The LyX licence
Hi, Ruurd. It appears that I forgot you from the original mail shot (you're not listed in CREDITS which is something we should fix ASAP.) 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.
Re: The LyX licence
Angus Leeming wrote: > "The following people hereby grant permission to licence their > contributions to LyX under the Gnu General Public Licence, version 2 or > later." I do. Alfredo
Re: The LyX licence
Angus et al., I hereby grant permission to licence my contributions to LyX under the GNU General Public Licence, version 2 or later. -- Mike Ressler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The LyX licence
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.
Re: The LyX licence
Angus, You have my permission to change the license of my contribution to the GNU GPL version 2 or later. Please note the change of email address (please check the headers - I'm not quoting it here for the spam-bots to find.). Ben Stanley. On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 01:55, Angus Leeming wrote: > 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."
Re: The LyX licence
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:33:23 +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hello Amir, nice to hear from you again! Hey, JM! > Amir> And I, having learned OO Perl to write reLyX... > > Currently, one of the hot topics is getting rid of reLyX, since we > have no perl hacker anymore :) Yes, well, if reLyX only as good as it was when I left it several years ago, I hope you take it out behind the barn and shoot it! I mean, not only was it sitting on top of Text::TeX v0.01 (which AFAIK never progressed any further and had known bugs), it was also the project I learned OO Perl with. Yuck! In the meantime, I found a much more useless hobby of Perl Golf. Gave that up for my second-to-latest (and completely useless) project, translating (Infocom-ish) Z-machine files into Perl, which was supposed to develop into making Parrot able to read Z-machine files directly. Only I left that for my current project, which is doing no programming at all because I am totally overwhelmed with (a longer commute and) having two kids. I've heard rumors that some people actually had three (like my parents) but I'm sure that's an urban legend. But I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for the LyX creature. Anyway, good luck. -Amir
Re: The LyX licence
Em Ter 22 Fev 2005 18:31, vocà escreveu: > > 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: > 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. I hereby grant permission to licence my contributions to LyX under the Gnu General Public Licence, version 2 or later. JoÃo Luis Meloni Assirati
Re: The LyX licence
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 16:55, you 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. > [clip] > 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, You have my permission to license my contributions to LyX under the GPL. Pauli Virtanen pgpPN1zfegtpW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Fwd: Re: The LyX licence
--- Begin Message --- 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 > --- End Message ---
Re: The LyX licence
You have my permission to put my name in the file you mentioned. Adrien Rebollo > 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 > -- Lassen Sie Ihren Gedanken freien Lauf... z.B. per FreeSMS GMX bietet bis zu 100 FreeSMS/Monat: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/mail
Re: The LyX licence
> "Kayvan" == Kayvan A Sylvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kayvan> Actually, we do have at least one (me) but I'm also a python Kayvan> hacker and a C++ hacker and it looks to me like tex2lyx is Kayvan> doing an increasingly better job of TeX translation. There Kayvan> seems to be little point in keeping reLyX around. I did not want to bellittle your skills, Kayvan :) But the fact is nobody is really motivated to make reLyX progress... JMarc
Re: The LyX licence
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 12:33:23PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Amir> I still check lyx.org every few months for nostalgia's sake. > Amir> Best of luck with the devel efforts, and I'm still waiting for > Amir> the day that someone tells me I ought to use this brand spanking > Amir> new WYSIWYM document processor... > > Hello Amir, nice to hear from you again! > > Amir> -Amir Karger ps Don't know if I ever mentioned to most of you > Amir> that I got my first job out of grad school because they > Amir> basically asked just one question at the interview: can you do > Amir> OO Perl? And I, having learned OO Perl to write reLyX, answered > Amir> yes! > > Currently, one of the hot topics is getting rid of reLyX, since we > have no perl hacker anymore :) Actually, we do have at least one (me) but I'm also a python hacker and a C++ hacker and it looks to me like tex2lyx is doing an increasingly better job of TeX translation. There seems to be little point in keeping reLyX around. ---Kayvan -- Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids: Sylvan Associates, Inc. | Laura Isabella Sylvan | Katherine Yelena (8/8/89) http://sylvan.com/~kayvan | "crown of her husband" | Robin Gregory (2/28/92)
Re: The LyX licence
Hello, 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." Yes, sure. -- Turgut Uyar 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.
Re: The LyX licence
Andreas Vox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | So I'd stick with the GPL in large and only put single files under another | licence. If a copyright holder insists that his/her changes to an existing | GPL'd file shall fall under a different licence, they have to be convinced | that this is not possible (I'm not sure if GPL would alow this!) > | Conclusion: | If anyone wants to have their contribution under a different licence, they | have to provide this contribution in an isolated file. Note that the file would have to be freestanding as well and not build upon any other LyX code, because then it is GPL automatically. And if that is unacceptable for the author then we cannot allow the patch/file. -- Lgb
Re: The LyX licence
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 08:52:31PM -0500, John Weiss wrote: Hi John! How's your job going? > >> Any contributions I made to LyX (early reLyX, documentation) should > >> therefore be considered as originally under the Artistic License. > >> > >> Make of that what you will. > > > > I think that you're correct. The purpose of this request for permission to > change the licence was twofold: > > 1. To make it clear legally what licence code contributed to LyX was > licenced under. > 2. To make the licence more restrictive than the published "GPL + XForms > exception". > > So I'll add a section to blanket-permissions.txt > > The following people hereby grant permission to licence their > contributions to LyX under the Artistic Licence > http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php I'm afraid that this will not be practical. It's ok to have separate file with different licences, but mixing will be difficult. First there's the documentation clause: 3. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, provided that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file stating how and when you changed that file, and provided that you do at least ONE of the following: a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them Freely Available, ... Since in LyX we don't document changes per file but in separate Changelogs, this will only be practical for a few isolated files under the Artistic Licence. The other problem would be how to interpret the definition of this licence: * What's the 'package' of a contribution to LyX? * What is the 'standard version'? Is the usual development of LyX working on the standard version or does it constitute a derived version? So I'd stick with the GPL in large and only put single files under another licence. If a copyright holder insists that his/her changes to an existing GPL'd file shall fall under a different licence, they have to be convinced that this is not possible (I'm not sure if GPL would alow this!) Conclusion: If anyone wants to have their contribution under a different licence, they have to provide this contribution in an isolated file. For John's contributions it would be possible to put reLyX and the docs under the Artistic licence, but then all the other contributers would have to agree :-( In doubt I'd stick with the licence which first appeard in file -- if someone changes the file later, they have to accept the existing licence. Ciao /Andreas BTW, John: The Artistic preamble says "... such that the Copyright Holder maintains some semblance of artistic control over the development of the package ..." In a fast developing project as LyX the best way to maintain this control would be to keep contributing and to join the discussions, no? ;-)
Re: The LyX licence
Angus Leeming wrote: In light of all this, I asking whether I can have your permission to add your names to http://www.lyx.org/blanket-permission.txt: Fine with me. I don't know if I have any _code_ in lyx, but I've done some translation. Helge Hafting
Re: The LyX licence
John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 01:01:24PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > >> We cannot have parts of code with GPL and others with artistic-license >> in the _same_ file. > | Sure we can. Why not? We merely need to note that certain portions are | licensed under the artistic license as well as the GPL. This is not aceptable to me. No. It is not up to us to dual license. That is up to the author. If John, or anyone else, has a patch that _do not_ derive from LyX code. (And how to you make that patch, hmm?) Then he would be free to dual license it... but we are free to pick the correct license for our usage: GPL. | Note that by | contributing, he was bound by the GPL+xforms license we had, and the | xforms exception doesn't appear to be relevant to what he contributed | to. Right. | Therefore, his contributions are ALREADY probably under the GPL. Anyway, | it's inconvenient, and utterly silly, but there is no disputing that | he's the copyright holder on his contributions. Yes, they are. He is copyright holder, but if his contributions are to be i the LyX sources they have to be GPL. -- Lgb
Re: The LyX licence
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 01:01:24PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > We cannot have parts of code with GPL and others with artistic-license > in the _same_ file. Sure we can. Why not? We merely need to note that certain portions are licensed under the artistic license as well as the GPL. Note that by contributing, he was bound by the GPL+xforms license we had, and the xforms exception doesn't appear to be relevant to what he contributed to. Therefore, his contributions are ALREADY probably under the GPL. Anyway, it's inconvenient, and utterly silly, but there is no disputing that he's the copyright holder on his contributions. regards john
Re: The LyX licence
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 08:52:31PM -0500, John Weiss wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 12:06:02PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: >>> > Dear all, >>> : >>> : >>> > In light of all this, I asking whether I can have your permission to >>> > add your names to http://www.lyx.org/blanket-permission.txt: >>> >>> No. You just made it a lot harder for us. >>> I have lately grown to detest FSF-Fundamentalism, and now refuse to >>> GPL or LGPL anything of mine. Which, IMHO, is just another kindo of fundamentalism... >>> But even beforehand, I preferred to >>> release all of my code and documentation under the Artistic License. >>> Any contributions I made to LyX (early reLyX, documentation) should >>> therefore be considered as originally under the Artistic License. No, you played by the rules then. You are not allowed to change them now. >> From a practical point of view, I don't think it changes much. >> The Artistic License is more permissive than the GPL or LGPL, so anything >> that can be done with a product under GPL is permitted under the Artistic >> license. >> >> My conclusion is that the two licenses can co-exist (a few files under >> the Artistic license and the rest under the GPL). If we are not allowed to relicense John's contributions then we cannot use his contributions. And it would be rather rude of us to relicense without permission, even if the Artistic License allows it. >> Anyone have another opinion they want to share on this? > | I think that you're correct. The purpose of this request for permission to | change the licence was twofold: > | 1. To make it clear legally what licence code contributed to LyX was | licenced under. | 2. To make the licence more restrictive than the published "GPL + XForms | exception". > | So I'll add a section to blanket-permissions.txt > | The following people hereby grant permission to licence their | contributions to LyX under the Artistic Licence | http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php We really cannot have this... We cannot have parts of code with GPL and others with artistic-license in the _same_ file. I am afraid that, by taking this stance, Johan has alienated himself from LyX development. -- Lgb
Re: The LyX licence
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 08:52:31PM -0500, John Weiss wrote: > GPL or LGPL anything of mine. But even beforehand, I preferred to > release all of my code and documentation under the Artistic License. Which one, the original artistic license, or the clarified one? Thankfully, the latter is compatible with the GPL, so the situation will not change and we can happily GPL all of LyX. The former is too vague to be useful. regards john
Re: The LyX licence
> "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Amir> I still check lyx.org every few months for nostalgia's sake. Amir> Best of luck with the devel efforts, and I'm still waiting for Amir> the day that someone tells me I ought to use this brand spanking Amir> new WYSIWYM document processor... Hello Amir, nice to hear from you again! Amir> -Amir Karger ps Don't know if I ever mentioned to most of you Amir> that I got my first job out of grad school because they Amir> basically asked just one question at the interview: can you do Amir> OO Perl? And I, having learned OO Perl to write reLyX, answered Amir> yes! Currently, one of the hot topics is getting rid of reLyX, since we have no perl hacker anymore :) JMarc
Re: The LyX licence
> > In light of all this, I asking whether I can have your permission to add > your names to http://www.lyx.org/blanket-permission.txt: > yes you can -- Viele Grüße, Hartmut Hungerhilfe: http://www.thehungersite.com Das heutige Motto: The hardest thing is to disguise your feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.
Re: The LyX licence
Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 08:52:31PM -0500, John Weiss wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 12:06:02PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: >> > Dear all, >> : >> : >> > In light of all this, I asking whether I can have your permission to >> > add your names to http://www.lyx.org/blanket-permission.txt: >> >> No. >> >> I have lately grown to detest FSF-Fundamentalism, and now refuse to >> GPL or LGPL anything of mine. But even beforehand, I preferred to >> release all of my code and documentation under the Artistic License. >> Any contributions I made to LyX (early reLyX, documentation) should >> therefore be considered as originally under the Artistic License. >> >> Make of that what you will. > > Hmmm... Okay... > > I'm not an FSFanatic, and I respect your choice to go with the Artistic > license. > > From a practical point of view, I don't think it changes much. > The Artistic License is more permissive than the GPL or LGPL, so anything > that can be done with a product under GPL is permitted under the Artistic > license. > > My conclusion is that the two licenses can co-exist (a few files under > the Artistic license and the rest under the GPL). > > Anyone have another opinion they want to share on this? I think that you're correct. The purpose of this request for permission to change the licence was twofold: 1. To make it clear legally what licence code contributed to LyX was licenced under. 2. To make the licence more restrictive than the published "GPL + XForms exception". So I'll add a section to blanket-permissions.txt The following people hereby grant permission to licence their contributions to LyX under the Artistic Licence http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php John Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> See lyx-devel list message entitled "The LyX licence" of 23 February 2005. -- Angus
Re: The LyX licence
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:55:35 + Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > That's fine with me: I hereby grant permission to licence my contributions to LyX under the GNU General Public Licence, version 2 or later. Eulogio Serradilla
Re: The LyX licence
Dear Angus & all, allthough I only contributed to documentation and layout files I do (of course) agree to the suggested change. Cheers, Pit 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. -- Dr. Peter "Pit" Suetterlin http://www.astro.uu.nl/~suetter Sterrenkundig Instituut Utrecht Tel.: +31 (0)30 253 5225 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The LyX licence
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 08:52:31PM -0500, John Weiss wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 12:06:02PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > > Dear all, > : > : > > In light of all this, I asking whether I can have your permission to > > add your names to http://www.lyx.org/blanket-permission.txt: > > No. > > I have lately grown to detest FSF-Fundamentalism, and now refuse to > GPL or LGPL anything of mine. But even beforehand, I preferred to > release all of my code and documentation under the Artistic License. > Any contributions I made to LyX (early reLyX, documentation) should > therefore be considered as originally under the Artistic License. > > Make of that what you will. Hmmm... Okay... I'm not an FSFanatic, and I respect your choice to go with the Artistic license. >From a practical point of view, I don't think it changes much. The Artistic License is more permissive than the GPL or LGPL, so anything that can be done with a product under GPL is permitted under the Artistic license. My conclusion is that the two licenses can co-exist (a few files under the Artistic license and the rest under the GPL). Anyone have another opinion they want to share on this? ---Kayvan -- Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids: Sylvan Associates, Inc. | Laura Isabella Sylvan | Katherine Yelena (8/8/89) http://sylvan.com/~kayvan | "crown of her husband" | Robin Gregory (2/28/92)
Re: The LyX licence
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 12:06:02PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > Dear all, : : > In light of all this, I asking whether I can have your permission to > add your names to http://www.lyx.org/blanket-permission.txt: No. I have lately grown to detest FSF-Fundamentalism, and now refuse to GPL or LGPL anything of mine. But even beforehand, I preferred to release all of my code and documentation under the Artistic License. Any contributions I made to LyX (early reLyX, documentation) should therefore be considered as originally under the Artistic License. Make of that what you will. -- John Weiss
Re: The LyX licence
On Tuesday 22 of February 2005 17:09, Angus Leeming wrote: > 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." I am not aware that I would contributed anything interesting to LyX, but certainly you can use GNU/GPL for whatever I have contributed (although I personally prefer something more free -- like MIT license, oh well). Matej Cepl -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 ..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property. -- John Locke, "A Treatise Concerning Civil Government" pgpmbafiKehXG.pgp Description: PGP signature
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Angus Leeming:
> 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."
>
I agree.
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Re: The LyX licence
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:55:35 +, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, Hi, all! > 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. Yes, you may add my name. I still check lyx.org every few months for nostalgia's sake. Best of luck with the devel efforts, and I'm still waiting for the day that someone tells me I ought to use this brand spanking new WYSIWYM document processor... -Amir Karger ps Don't know if I ever mentioned to most of you that I got my first job out of grad school because they basically asked just one question at the interview: can you do OO Perl? And I, having learned OO Perl to write reLyX, answered yes!
Re: The LyX licence
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Angus, | please excuse the personal email, but I'm trying to do something about | the messy state of the LyX licence and need your help. Thank you for cleaning up the license situation. | 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. Yes, I grant permission to license my contributions under GPLv2, please add me to the list. Regards, Henner, who hasn't contributed to the list or the LyX code for several years now, but rembembers the old times when we used to add little sentences like this after the signature ... :-) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFCG8HrlgB8LDOVHR0RAjCSAJ99rGUU/8S1FaWa0K/4CKThdQ3qDgCeKIN1 OnIAb/BSAJ+ZgZWrEDCOBA8= =fW5h -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: The LyX licence
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 23:09, you wrote: > 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." That's okay, feel free to add my name to that list. Regards Daniel -- http://www.danielnaber.de
Re: The LyX licence
[Angus bemoans legal tedium] 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: Certainly. Did I really contribute anything? -- http://rrt.sc3d.org/ | plagiarism, n. the mind burgles
The LyX licence
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.
Re: The LyX licence
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Angus Leeming wrote:
> In light of all this, I 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.
Permission granted
(just to be on the safe side, I'm afraid I never actually got around to
contribute anything ... :-(
/Christian ("offical" e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Angus Leeming:
> 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."
>
I agree.
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--- Begin Message --- Angus Leeming wrote: 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." [ ... ] pas des problem ... Herbert -- http://TeXnik.de/ http://PSTricks.de/ ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes --- End Message ---
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--- Begin Message --- On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:55:35PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > > 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." I grant permission to licence my contribution to LyX under the Gnu General Public Licence, version 2 or later. Dekel --- End Message ---
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--- Begin Message --- Hi Angus, I don't mind you or the LyX team putting my contribution under GPL2 or any forthcoming GPL. Indeed, it's a long time ago that I made this contribution. Best Regards Heinrich Bauer --- T-Mobile T-Dev 133, Mobile Data Services T-Mobile International AG & Co. KG Landgrabenweg 151 D-53227 Bonn Germany Phone: +49 228 936-18464 Mobile: +49 171 20 11 675 Fax: +49 228 936-33239 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -Original Message- From: Angus Leeming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dienstag, 22. Februar 2005 15:56 To: Adrien Rebollo; Albert Chin; Alejandro Aguilar Sierra; Alfredo Braunstein; Alkis Polyzotis; Amir Karger; Andre Spiegel; Baruch Even; Ben Stanley; Bernard Michael Hurley; Bernd Kümmerlen; Bernd Rellermeyer; Bernhard Iselborn; Carl Ollivier-Gooch ; Christian Buescher; Claudio Coco; Claus Hentschel; Claus Hindsgaul; Daniel Naber; David L. Johnson ; David Suárez de Lis; Dekel Tsur; Dirk Niggemann; Dooteo; Edmar Wienskoski Jr. ; Eulogio Serradilla Rodríguez; Felix Kurth; Francesc Burrull i Mestres; Garst R. Reese ; Geoffroy Piroux; Graham Biswell; H. Turgut Uyar ; Hans Bausewein; Hartmut Goebel; Heinrich Bauer; Helge Hafting; Henner Zeller; Herbert Voss; Huang Ying; Hubert Schreier; Ivan Schreter; Joacim Persson; John Michael Floyd; John P. Weiss ; John Spray; João Luis Meloni Assirati; Kalle Dalheimer; Kayvan Aghaiepour Sylvan; Kornelia Pietsch; Ling Li; Maarten Afman; Marko Vendelin; Martin Konold; Mate Wierdl; Matej Cepl; Matthias Ettrich; Matthias Ulrichs; Michael Koziarski; Michael Ressler; Michal Jaegermann; Miyata Shigeru; Pablo De Napoli; Panayotis Papasotiriou; Pascal André; Pauli Virtanen; Peter Kremer; Peter Sütterlin; R. Lahaye ; Reuben Thomas; Robert van der Kamp; Roman Maurer; Ronald Florence; Serge Winitzki; Stefano Ghirlanda; Stephan Witt; Thomas Pundt; Tino Meinen; Victor Lavrenko; Xiaokun Zhu; Yves Bastide; Zvezdan Petkovic; edscott Cc: LyX devel Subject: The LyX licence 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&conten t-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup Equivalent URL: http://tinyurl.com/5nqhs --- End Message ---
Re: The LyX licence
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:55:35PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > pps. in case you're wondering where I got your email address from: > it's listed in the LyX hall of fame: It took me by an utter surprise that my name shows up there as I do not recall to ever contribute any code to LyX. But indeed I am on that list with the following entry. Michal Jaegermann E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fix to a very hard-to-find egcs bug that crashed LyX on alpha architecture egcs is now an ancient history and alpha is not exactly vibrant nowadays. It had to be some one-liner a long time ago which probably vanished in subsequent code revisions and if not then it is not needed anymore. Highly doubtful if this qualifies me legally to have any say in license matters. > 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." If you need that then yes; you do have my permission for the above. Michal
Re: The LyX licence
Angus, I hereby grant permission to licence my contributions to LyX under the Gnu General Public Licence, version 2 or later. If there's a copyright assignment form I'd be willing to sign that too. Cheers Koz On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:55:35 +, Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > 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 > -- Cheers Koz
Re: The LyX licence
I am not sure whether any of my code is still used in LyX, so it is far from clear whether I have any rights at all. But, if you need, please feel free to add to the list of people which "grant permission to licence their contributions to LyX under the Gnu General Public Licence, version 2 or later." best wishes, marko On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, 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. 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
Re: The LyX licence
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 14:55 +, Angus Leeming wrote: > "The following people hereby grant permission to licence their contributions > to LyX under the Gnu General Public Licence, version 2 or later." I hereby grant permission to licence my contributions to LyX under the Gnu General Public Licence, version 2 or later. John
Re: The LyX licence
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >> | In light of all this, I asking whether I can have your permission to >> | add your names to http://www.lyx.org/blanket-permission.txt: >> >> Angus, I think we should have this file in the source-code cvs. >> >> If we really want this accessible from the web, we can add some code >> that handles that "automagically" > | Fine. There's a way to go yet though. So far we have 24 signatories. | (There are 97 individuals listed in the CREDITS file.) When we have done "best effort" should should just change anyway. Then they can come complain later. -- Lgb
Re: The LyX licence
Angus Leeming wrote: I 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." Yes, of course. I grant permission to licence any and all contributions I made to LyX under the Gnu General Public Licence, version 2 or later. Regards, Stephan
Re: The LyX licence
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | In light of all this, I asking whether I can have your permission to > | add your names to http://www.lyx.org/blanket-permission.txt: > > Angus, I think we should have this file in the source-code cvs. > > If we really want this accessible from the web, we can add some code > that handles that "automagically" Fine. There's a way to go yet though. So far we have 24 signatories. (There are 97 individuals listed in the CREDITS file.) I'll have to wait till I get home to see how many of the original addresses bounced ;-) > From now on we should require all contributors to have their names listed > there. Makes sense. > Great initiative btw. I remember discussions about the license way back in 1999. Five year's of procrastination with no movement at all is enough I think ;-) -- Angus
Re: The LyX licence
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 15:55, 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." me is ok. Felix Kurth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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 > > -- Felix Kurth pgp public key: http://www.fkurth.de/keys/felix.fkurth.asc key fingerprint: D401 DCF8 2BF8 50DF 2FAD 8136 C29B 83EE C0A1 F2AD pgp4EOZ5D8RRb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: The LyX licence
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Angus, I do agree to release my contributions to Lyx under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. I strongly support the use of the GPL for licensing free software, and I think that as you metion this exception are now not needed any more (neither for Xforms nor QT). You can add my name to http://www.lyx.org/blanket-permission.txt: best regards, Pablo De Napoli PD: This message is signed with my GPG public key that you may find at http://mate.dm.uba.ar/~pdenapo/public_key.txt in proof of its authenticity. 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 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCG1eQUKhvz90BhmoRAuXCAKCx2+rUx9lHnPZaT4AzoeXqqe14OQCfXc7W KZWgmBkNJPESxZdMDY7xQ+Q= =fizX -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: The LyX licence
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | In light of all this, I asking whether I can have your permission to add your | names to http://www.lyx.org/blanket-permission.txt: Angus, I think we should have this file in the source-code cvs. If we really want this accessible from the web, we can add some code that handles that "automagically" >From now on we should require all contributors to have their names listed there. Great initiative btw. -- Lgb
Re: The LyX licence
I am not sure there is any of my code left, but in case there is, you hereby have my permission. Cheers, Kalle On Tuesday 22 February 2005 15:55, you 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. > > 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&conte >nt-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup Equivalent URL: http://tinyurl.com/5nqhs -- Matthias Kalle Dalheimer President & CEO Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB Platform-independent software solutions
Re: The LyX licence
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 12:06:02PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > > In light of all this, I 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." Yes. You may add my name to the blanket-permission.txt, for all prior and future contributions to LyX. -- Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids: Sylvan Associates, Inc. | Laura Isabella Sylvan | Katherine Yelena (8/8/89) http://sylvan.com/~kayvan | "crown of her husband" | Robin Gregory (2/28/92)
Re: The LyX licence
Dear members of the LyX-team, I hereby grant permission to licence everything I have contributed to LyX under the Gnu General Public Licence, version 2 or later. Regards, Rob Lahaye.
Re: The LyX licence
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I hereby grant permission to licence my contributions to LyX under the > Gnu General Public Licence, version 2 or later. > > I'm glad that some of my code (supposedly) still lives on. > > Please note that my e-mail address has since changed (and to make things > worse, I'm writing this from a different e-mail account altogether). > > My address back when I contributed to LyX was Andre Spiegel > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] berlin.de>. > > My address is now: Andre Spiegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > Please use that address in > the blanket-permission.txt file. (If possible, please also use that > address in the LyX credits file.) Ok, it's now changed. > Thanks, and keep going with the good work, Thank you. -- Angus
Re: The LyX licence
Hi, I am the current Danish translator of LyX. I hereby grant permission to licence my contributions to LyX under the Gnu General Public Licence, version 2 or later. Claus Hindsgaul tir, 22 02 2005 kl. 14:55 +, skrev Angus Leeming: > 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 > -- Ph.D. studerende Claus Hindsgaul Reberbanegade 53, 4. th DK-2300 KBH S
Re: The LyX licence
Hi folks, On ar., 2005-02-22 at 12:06 +, Angus Leeming wrote: (...) > In light of all this, I 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. Yes of course! I granted all and any pass, present and future contribution I'd made or will make for LyX under the Gnu General Public Licence, version 2 or later. Thanks and best regards, Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio (aka Dooteo)
Re: The LyX licence
I hereby grant permission to licence my contributions to LyX under the Gnu General Public Licence, version 2 or later. I'm glad that some of my code (supposedly) still lives on. Please note that my e-mail address has since changed (and to make things worse, I'm writing this from a different e-mail account altogether). My address back when I contributed to LyX was Andre Spiegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED] berlin.de>. My address is now: Andre Spiegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Please use that address in the blanket-permission.txt file. (If possible, please also use that address in the LyX credits file.) Thanks, and keep going with the good work, Andre Spiegel www.free-software-consulting.com
