Re: Should Wine move to LGPL 3?

[Michael Stefaniuc]

Ian Macfarlane wrote:
> - Samba has decided to become GPL3+ only, as they want the added
>
> protections provided by the license. WINE and Samba seem like projects
> that may potentially wish to share code (a very quick search brings up
> articles like this http://www.winehq.org/?issue=272), and if WINE
> sticks to supporting GPLv2+ rather than GPLv3+, then WINE will no
> longer be able to integrate Samba code.

This point is actually moot. Samba is GPL and Wine is LGPL. I don't see 
v3 having changed something in regard to that. If Wine wants to use 
Samba code it has to ask the people that own the copyright to relicense 
their work.

bye
    michael