Re: [ettrich@troll.no: Re: copyright problem]

1998-10-13 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 11:58:16AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: How about this one? I told him I would remove the first sentence but other than that it looks okay to me. Michael - Forwarded message from Matthias Ettrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] - If we do something like this, I'd

Re: [ettrich@troll.no: Re: copyright problem]

1998-10-13 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 01:44:18PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: people to distribute LyX in both source and binary forms. This permission certainly includes linking against GUI toolkits like XForms, Motif, GTK, Qt or Win32. `... and distributing the resulting binary.' should

[ettrich@troll.no: Re: copyright problem]

1998-10-12 Thread Michael Meskes
How about this one? I told him I would remove the first sentence but other than that it looks okay to me. Michael - Forwarded message from Matthias Ettrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] - If we do something like this, I'd rather suggest a text like: The GPL is often a source of missunderstanding

Re: [ettrich@troll.no: Re: copyright problem]

1998-10-12 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Michael Meskes wrote: How about this one? I told him I would remove the first sentence but other than that it looks okay to me. looks good to me, with or without the first sentence. it's true, anyway. the GPL is often a source of misunderstanding and confusion.

Antwort: Re: [ettrich@troll.no: Re: copyright problem]

1998-10-12 Thread mummertpartner_meskesm
looks good to me, with or without the first sentence. For me too. it's true, anyway. the GPL is often a source of misunderstanding and confusion. witness KDE, for example. Yes, your right. But I think this sentence doens´t fit well into a license file. if ettrich is willing to write

Re: [ettrich@troll.no: Re: copyright problem]

1998-10-12 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
people to distribute LyX in both source and binary forms. This permission certainly includes linking against GUI toolkits like XForms, Motif, GTK, Qt or Win32. `... and distributing the resulting binary.' should be added. You can always link in the privacy of your home. What GPL

Re: [ettrich@troll.no: Re: copyright problem]

1998-10-12 Thread Raul Miller
Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I told him I would remove the first sentence but other than that it looks okay to me. Yeah. With that first sentence in, I think he'd argue that he doesn't need anyone's permission to apply it to third-party GPLed software: he's declaring what the GPL