Indentation and (un)commenting in local layout and preamble

[Daniel]

On 2022-09-14 09:04, Daniel wrote:
> On 13/09/2022 18:27, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> Le 13/09/2022 à 16:12, Daniel a écrit :
>>> And I guess more importantly in license.rtf it says:
>>>
>>> "LyX. You can redistribute LyX and/or modify it under the terms of 
>>> the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software 
>>> Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any 
>>> later version."
>>
>> That means that QtCreator can take code from LyX and use it as GPLv3 ;)
>>
>> JMarc
> 
> Or LyX can take code from LyX. ;)
> 
> Well, looks like open source isn't as open as I thought.
> 
> I see a couple of possible routes to resolve this:
> 
> 1) I seem to remember that it was stated in the Qt Creator code 
> somewhere that smaller parts of the code can be used without license. 
> So, I could check with the Qt people what they mean by smaller parts. My 
> guess is that re-use of smaller parts would be in their interest since 
> it gives people a source of example code that allows people to work more 
> easily with Qt. This would also be helpful for the future since 
> something like "look at how Qt Creator does it" often comes up.
> 
> 2) Check whether a previous Qt Creator release under another license has 
> the same or similar code.
> 
> 3) Re-invent the wheel, i.e. I could start from scratch and try to come 
> up with my own method for the (un)commenting part.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Daniel

Went for 3 at https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/12577.

Daniel