Indentation and (un)commenting in local layout and preamble

[Daniel]

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