LyX Archaeology::Xforms timeline

Announce

date:

1994/12/23

T. C. Zao made the announcement in several newsgroups, comp.sys.sgi.announce was the first, this continued during the next month in other newsgroups for different plataforms. As an example the one for linux occured in 1995/01/25.

0.61

date:

1995/01/24

First named version after the announcement.

0.75

date:

1995/07/30

First version used in LyX development.

0.81

date:

1996/06/30

0.86

date:

1997/03/25

0.88

date:

1997/11/14

0.89

date:

1999/08/21

This was one of the first public references to the possible evolution of the licence to a open source status (no time table was given).

0.9999

date:

2002/04/01

As Steve Lamont said this was not an April fools prank but it was the first version with the LGPL licence, making xforms free software.

1.0

date:

2002/12/08

First stable release with LGPL licence.