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On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 08:13, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> To make it clear. |
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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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Wine is now GPL afaik. |
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> Further we have been asked |
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> not to provide the cvs ebuild. This makes it easy for people to use the cvs |
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> version of winex, so getting winex without paying. The people making winex |
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> still need to eat though, so if we continue to offer winex-cvs ebuilds a |
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> consequence could be that they close up their cvs to protect their living, |
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> and with that hurting a lot of innocent bystanders. |
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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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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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> They see their cvs access |
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> as a way people can help contribute to winex, and get winex in return. They |
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> don't mind people getting winex for free if those people help developing. The |
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> way the gentoo ebuild works, makes it very easy for people to use the cvs |
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> version without even thinking. Most of those people probably do not help |
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> developing winex, and as such use a resource without paying for it. |
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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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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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Yust my 2 Eurocents, |
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Patrick Lauer |
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