Re: Intent to package xmemos
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Richard Braakman wrote:
> KELEMEN Peter wrote:
> > On Sat, 1999-03-27 23:24:31 -0800, Darren O. Benham wrote:
> >
> > > Legally, you can not distribute GPL software that's been linked to
> > > xforms. To include it in Debian, it has to be compiled against fltk.
> > > If it won't compile, it has to go the way of KDE.
> >
> > XWatch is a similar program. [...]
>
> This is indeed a bug. I've just filed it against xwatch. Thanks
> for pointing it out.
Note that it's perfectly OK to link with xforms under a 'GPL plus as an
exception you may distribute binaries linked to xforms'. This is how LyX
works.
Jules
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