On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Michael Meskes wrote:
> I'd like to ask the other developers what they think. While I see th elogic > behind your approach I still think LyX should be an official part of Debian. Me too. However, I think that the way to accomplish that is to persuade the XForms authors to release the sources under some kind of free license. Or help promote a FreeXForms project. > > What happens if I recompile it statically? Would it go into the standard > tree then? > I would still not be able to rebuild from scratch. Any user should be able to rebuild any package in the official Debian distribution from the original source plus our patches.