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From: Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o>
To: Adrian Almenar <strider@g.o>
Cc: Owen Gunden <ogunden@××××××××××××.edu>, gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Winex-cvs being removed from portage?
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 00:20:22
Message-Id: 200307260020.14612.luke-jr@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Winex-cvs being removed from portage? by Adrian Almenar
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4 Yes, however, I believe WINE used a different license (BSD perhaps) at one
5 point and changed to LGPL later. It it likely that WineX was forked from the
6 earlier version.
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8 On Friday 25 July 2003 02:31 pm, Adrian Almenar wrote:
9 > Winex is derived from wine and wine is NOT GPL is LGPL, AFAIK.
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11 > Luke-Jr wrote:
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15 > >I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think WineX is licensed under the GPL.
16 > > Also, the GPL only requires that they give you the source with the
17 > > binary. As long as the subscribers can get the source with the binary,
18 > > nothing would stop them from denying the public access to it.
19 > >
20 > >On Friday 25 July 2003 03:47 am, Owen Gunden wrote:
21 > >>On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:01:37PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
22 > >>>How about because they asked us to? Essentially, we have been asked to
23 > >>>not create an automated process to allow a user to install winex from
24 > >>>cvs. The anonymous cvs is there for people to assist in development
25 > >>>with winex. Technically, there is nothing stopping us from continuing
26 > >>>to provide winex-cvs ebuilds. However, Gentoo is part of a larger
27 > >>>community and quite simply, you don't maintain your status as a useful
28 > >>>member of the community if you go around pissing off your neighbors. In
29 > >>>fact, there is nothing keeping Transgaming from pulling the anonymous
30 > >>>cvs access for the winex sources from sourceforge and making it
31 > >>>available to subscriber's only.
32 > >>
33 > >>Then why is the anonymous cvs access available in the first place? Also,
34 > >>are you sure they don't have to release the source because of the GPL?
35 > >>IANAL, and I certainly don't know what I'm talking about. Just
36 > >> wondering.
37 > >>
38 > >>Owen
39 > >>
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44 > >Luke-Jr
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Winex-cvs being removed from portage? Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>