%% Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
c> On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 05:19:59PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> >>>>> "Ramon" == Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> GNU software is software endorsed by the FSF as part of the GNU
>> system. LyX is certainly not in this category.
>> Anyway LyX is distributed under the GNU GPL. At least it is our intent
>> :)
c> I think the way this is gotten around is for the software to be
c> released under a modified GPL where the author(s) give special
c> permission for the GPL software to be linked against the non-GPL
c> library -- basically it's the same situation that exists with KDE.
Except, of course, that the licenses on KDE apps _don't_ give that
permission. That's why there's contention over the legality or
otherwise of KDE amongst the GNU set.
The LyX license does make such an exception, so, no problem there.
Nevertheless, the FSF won't accept LyX as GNU software as long as it
relies on non-free libraries like xforms. Does it matter?
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