On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 09:41:56AM -0800, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
Patrik Stridvall ps@leissner.se writes:
In short: Should the Wine project wait until you release or should it not?
That's certainly a question we have to think about, but I think there is a deeper issue: should we continue to release under a license that allows people to use our own code to hurt the project?
Actually this was our original idea of using the BSD license as far as I remember, making it possible for companies to take the code and do things they want with it.
This was taking into account they kept it for themselves so not hurting our own incentive to do program missing things.
It appears that we did not consider someone else releasing it under a pseudo OpenSource license. (pseudo as in one-way free migration of sourcecode).
Probably a license change to the LGPL would be a choice. Companies can do their own seperate additions (like a complete DirectX replacement), but can't just 'fix' library parts and keep those changes for themselves.
Hmm, I don't really know. I wouldn't mind changing my code to LGPL though.
Ciao, Marcus