Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 07:06:07PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > > Strictly speaking, you are on shaky ground here in case that LyX > > comes with any third-party GPLed licenced software. In that case, > > the copyright holders of those software may insist that their stuff > > be not combined and redistributed in one binary with Qt(Windows) or > > xforms or whatever else. > > I think it would be absolutely no problem if there were no > Qt-Windows-binaries available on lyx.org.
Not for you. This would only concern potential LyX-Qt-Windows-binary redistributors. > And we certainly can't prevent *cough* people from distributing > precompiled binaries in other places. So it is possible for us to > stay on the safe side. Yes. > > I can't really tell about Qt, but xforms sucks, IMO, in its general > > behavior. I think GTK LyX would be a large improvement, and an > > obviously legally unproblematic candidate for binary redistribution. > > Nobody seems to be actively working on a GTK port as far as I can > see... Oops. What sort of toolkits are in consideration, then? xforms and Qt, obviously. Anything else? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
