On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 04:54:05PM -0600, Jeremy White wrote:
Some recent events have occurred that have made me change my opinion about a Wine license change.
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However, with some recent events I cannot disclose, it is clear to me that the opportunity for Wine to be used in a proprietary product is too tempting and has caused some harm to the Wine project. Based on experience, I feel strongly that the potential for harm is great enough that CodeWeavers needs to take two actions. First, we would like to release all new code we develop under an LGPL style license. Second, I would like to open another call for a license change and thereby strongly add my voice to Alexandre's.
OK, when the last discussion was going on, I started out with the opinion that the change would be good and changed it to not so good, because if proprietary stuff that *is* part of the windows kernel (or drivers) needs to be implemented, this can't be done with an LGPLed wine. My final idea (which I never mailed) was, that maybe a X11-licensed kernel (including wineserver and driver emulation) and LGPLed dlls for the rest would be the best solution.
ciao Jörg
-- Joerg Mayer jmayer@loplof.de I found out that "pro" means "instead of" (as in proconsul). Now I know what proactive means.