That means that if we had been LGPL and they wanted to keep Install Shield stuff proprietary then they would have had to reimplement everything or at least a good portion of what you did. However they would not have been required to have implemented the whole DLL, just the parts that they want to replace with their proprietary versions. They can also mix and match. For example, for some functions they could release a patch back to wine. But for functions which they rewrote completely they could under the LGPL distribute it binary only. This is still better than the current situation where they can do whatever the hell they want. That is all I am saying.
I believe, at least from a laymans perspective just having gone through 60 + messages that the above statement makes alot of sense from several angles......it seems to make sense because then what ,-everyone is 'compensated' yes ? , ie: everyone can live with it and to those that abuse it...'live with yourself' to whatever end that suits you.
I am here because of 'linux' and its open-source model/comradry. I am not here to run ( no dis-respect meant whatsoever to various software models that have been mandatory for some business's ) something that requires me to install a M$ product as a workaround,- but then again I have that option not having huge requirements as a basic end-user/sm business.
It is all fairly complex and I do 'not' pretend to understand all the various pro/cons but whatever is done I'd hope its in the best interest of wine/linux as without which, I'd not be as productive as I am.
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