Aric Stewart aric@codeweavers.com wrote:
The simple of it is.. you, Patrik, would not buy a Wine distribution form us. Why would you? You are a developer, and a wine developer on top of that.
What seems to be the most commercially successful mode on top of opensource is to have an opensource base and have a value-add component - but I have yet to see a successful mode that has no propriatary component.
It is these sorts of people and companies that we want to target. And financially Patrik's money for his license or even the money form all the wine developers would be nearly insignificant compared to a 100+ seat site license.
uh, how can you sell a N-seat site license with something that is covered by *GPL (since this would be a violation of the license)? If your model is to sell by seat, I would like you see the reasoning between the difference of a 10 seat license and a 100 seat license with the *GPL.
As a developer who has worked on far too many proprietary Wine trees and seen all the fights the Jeremy has gone through. I want to be assured that i can give my code back to the wine community.
As I said before, if a copyleft is all that is needed, choose a copyleft that makes SENSE. LGPL may be convienient, but I have seen no rational argument in having the *GPL's brand of copyleft (other than it's widely used). I think the mozilla project would be a good place to look...
-r