On 2002.02.17 02:50 Sean Farley wrote:
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 12:06, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Marcus Meissner wrote:
And especially:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=de&selm=1szq0fy8sm.fsf_-_%40lrcsuns.e...
OK,
What about this:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Ingo+Molnar+group:comp.emulators.ms-window...
Linus's quote was quite interesting:
I don't personally contribute - partly because of the same worries that Ingo Molnar brought up some time ago, ie the copyright. It's not that I dislike the wine copyright - I actually think that the BSD-style copyrights can be a good thing. But _personally_ I don't want to do significant work under that kind of copyright and having to wonder whether the best version of Wine will be free in the future..That was almost the same as Brett's message concerning working on Wine if it was xGPL'd.
Almost, but not quite. Brett's quote seemed more like he was trying to hold it over our heads like "See, I won't contribute if you go LGPL and you'll lose all the wondeful commercial developers like me!". Linus's quote was more like "I won't contribute if you're not under a copyleft, but I have no vote so take that as nothing more than my opinion". Then it was left at that, there was no ongoing argument for a week about it. Linus was certainly more tactful.
In other words, I took Brett's attitude as being hostile towards the project from the beginning but when I read Linus's comments there was no hostility involved. Maybe it is just that Linus is a better writer.
or this:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Ingo+Molnar+group:comp.emulators.ms-window...
This made me wonder about what happened to TWIN. I noticed they faded away. If anyone thinks xGPL'ing WINE will bring more support, they should look at TWIN. I am not saying the license killed it, but I am saying that the LGPL did not bring it any support.
I am about 99% sure that TWIN was released under LGPL after Willows had no interest in it whatsoever. Back in the day Codeweavers did a lot of projects by combining Twin and WINE into "Twine" and using that to do ports. So Jeremy is certainly no stranger to using an LGPLd Wine-like project for his business.
-Dave