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Copyright question

Hi,

I thought about packaging lyx for the Debian Linux distribution (unless
someone els is already working on it of course). Since lyx needs xforms to
compile I thought about packaging xforms, too. However, the copyright
prevents this:

>All files distributed in this package are
>copyright (c) 1995, 1996 by T.C. Zhao and Mark Overmars
>ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 
>
>Permission to use, copy, and distribute this software in its entirety
>for non-commercial purposes and without fee, is hereby granted, provided
>that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear
>in all copies and their documentation. 
>
>This software is provided "as is" without expressed or implied
>warranty of any kind.
>
>You may not "bundle" and distribute this software with systems and/or 
>other distribution media without prior consent of the authors.

Alternatively I could link lyx statically against xforms but I'm not sure if
this is legal according to this copyright. 

Could you please tell me if we're allowed to do that?

Michael

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