Should Wine move to LGPL 3?
Hi! I just stumbled on this list and discussion, and though to just mention a highly speculative, but potentially very rewarding advantage of using LGPLv3 for wine. According to this opinion at groklaw: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070709101318827 Microsoft MIGHT end up being effectively forced to distribute GPLv3 code under the deal with Novell, and hence loose any chance to sue about patents any so licenced projects included in SuSE, and I suppose wine is included in that distro. Given the nature of the wine project, Im thinking it could benefit greatly from such potential shelding from Microsofts patent portfolio, if things happen to unfold in this very optimistic scenario.. just a thought...
On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 19:22 +0200, Damjan Novak wrote:
Hi! I just stumbled on this list and discussion, and though to just mention a highly speculative, but potentially very rewarding advantage of using LGPLv3 for wine.
According to this opinion at groklaw: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070709101318827 Microsoft MIGHT end up being effectively forced to distribute GPLv3 code under the deal with Novell, and hence loose any chance to sue about patents any so licenced projects included in SuSE, and I suppose wine is included in that distro.
Given the nature of the wine project, Im thinking it could benefit greatly from such potential shelding from Microsofts patent portfolio, if things happen to unfold in this very optimistic scenario..
just a thought...
MS explicitly excluded Wine from that deal anyway. Thanks, Scott Ritchie
On 7/24/07, Scott Ritchie <scott(a)open-vote.org> wrote:
MS explicitly excluded Wine from that deal anyway.
Thanks, Scott Ritchie
I dont think that it matters what the patent covenant covers or not for this to work, all it takes is that they distribute it via vouchers as part of the SuSE distribution, and with some luck in the unfolding of these events, LGPLv3 patent provisions might disarm them by itself, but IANAL...
On 7/25/07, Damjan Novak <aryah47(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I dont think that it matters what the patent covenant covers or not for this to work, all it takes is that they distribute it via vouchers as part of the SuSE distribution, and with some luck in the unfolding of these events, LGPLv3 patent provisions might disarm them by itself, but IANAL...
On second thought, reading further the text and FAQ of the licence, I think Im wrong, sorry.
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 03:28:13PM +0100, Damjan Novak wrote:
On 7/25/07, Damjan Novak <aryah47(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I dont think that it matters what the patent covenant covers or not for this to work, all it takes is that they distribute it via vouchers as part of the SuSE distribution, and with some luck in the unfolding of these events, LGPLv3 patent provisions might disarm them by itself, but IANAL...
On second thought, reading further the text and FAQ of the licence, I think Im wrong, sorry.
Also, Wine is not on SLED/SLES, just on openSUSE, which is not protected by the patent covenant. And it is explicitly left out. Ciao, Marcus
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 21:01 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 03:28:13PM +0100, Damjan Novak wrote:
On 7/25/07, Damjan Novak <aryah47(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I dont think that it matters what the patent covenant covers or not for this to work, all it takes is that they distribute it via vouchers as part of the SuSE distribution, and with some luck in the unfolding of these events, LGPLv3 patent provisions might disarm them by itself, but IANAL...
On second thought, reading further the text and FAQ of the licence, I think Im wrong, sorry.
Also, Wine is not on SLED/SLES, just on openSUSE, which is not protected by the patent covenant. And it is explicitly left out.
Ciao, Marcus
On the other hand, it's quite possible that Parallels would enter into some sort of patent thingy with Microsoft, and they DO distribute Wine. Thanks, Scott Ritchie
On 7/25/07, Scott Ritchie <scott(a)open-vote.org> wrote:
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 21:01 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 03:28:13PM +0100, Damjan Novak wrote:
On 7/25/07, Damjan Novak <aryah47(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I dont think that it matters what the patent covenant covers or not for this to work, all it takes is that they distribute it via vouchers as part of the SuSE distribution, and with some luck in the unfolding of these events, LGPLv3 patent provisions might disarm them by itself, but IANAL...
On second thought, reading further the text and FAQ of the licence, I think Im wrong, sorry.
Also, Wine is not on SLED/SLES, just on openSUSE, which is not protected by the patent covenant. And it is explicitly left out.
Ciao, Marcus
On the other hand, it's quite possible that Parallels would enter into some sort of patent thingy with Microsoft, and they DO distribute Wine.
Thanks, Scott Ritchie
But it's only wined3d right? And that's based on OpenGL. Why they would even consider a patent convent would boggle me. Of course, the threat for unenumerated patents is enough for some. Jesse
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