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On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 05:49, Patrick Lauer wrote: |
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> > winex is not GPL, I believe it has a MIT-X license. |
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> Wine was under a BSD-style license until the Transgaming people started |
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> selling it without giving back to wine. |
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Actually, it was X11 licensed. They changed the licensing not because |
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of Gavriel and Transgaming at all, but because of Lindows. Go check the |
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wine-devel archives to find the discussions. |
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> Wine is now GPL afaik. |
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LGPL, but close enough. |
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> Why should these people get money for using technology provided by the |
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> wine project? |
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> I know this sounds a lot like a flame, but they took the years of work |
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> of the wine project, added some value and started selling it. |
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Because the old wine license allowed it? There is no other reason. |
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Your comments here *are* a flame. Followed immediately by a praising of |
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the almighty GPL... |
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> That's were Stallman and the GPL come in: The GPL keeps your work |
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> available for all. Other licences may be abused. |
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There is plenty of reason for other licenses, otherwise they would not |
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exist. For example, if I wanted to create an open source application, |
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yet also create a feature-enhanced binary only version, a BSD license |
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would be a perfect choice for me to select. |
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> It gives the community the patches made to wine. I dislike the |
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> whining of Transgaming because people use the product they got for free. |
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Transgaming is no longer simply issuing "patches made to wine", but |
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rather a quite changed product that was *derived* from wine. This is a |
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major distinction. Transgaming made a simple request. Nobody is |
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whining but you. |
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> If they want Gentoo not to use the anonymous CVS in an automated |
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> fashion, ok, but why do they offer it? So I can develop their product? |
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> wtf? That feels very wrong to me. Like Microsoft Shared Source: You |
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> patch, we own. |
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If it feels wrong to you, then don't use it. Don't develop for them. |
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It is that simple. Microsoft's shared source is a poor example for |
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obvious reasons. I'm not even going to say any more than that because I |
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feel strongly against feeding trolls. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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