Re: Wine license change

[Brett Glass]

At 12:26 PM 2/13/2002, Paul Millar wrote:
> > It's hard to conceive of a rational business model that did not recognize
> > the advantage of offloading maintenance of non-strategic code to an 
> > open source team.
>
> True for non-strategic code, but what about _strategic_ code (strategic in
> the sense that the business model assumes the retention of IP-rights). If
> this is based on BSD-licensed code then there is no incentive to release
> the code back to the community.

Whether or not it's based on BSD-licensed code, it's a good idea for the
business not to release it for everyone to use. If it's of real value, though,
it will probably have a lot of originality to it.

--Brett