Ivan Leo Puoti wrote:
Hem, Mike I did ask about this on wine-devel and got no answers. I am *not* the sort of person that would take decisions like that one without discussing it first, but as nobody answered I thought nobody cared, it is not my intent to interfere with anything.
I was puzzled by this, because I shared Mike's concern that you unilaterally removed this file, and it seemed abrupt and unannounced to me as well.
So I searched around, and I see that you brought this up in April, and then nicely followed through by submitting patches to change Wine to not point to SF, but instead to Microsoft.
So, I guess that the only thing we could have asked is if you had posted a note saying something to the effect 'okay, guys, now that I cleaned up the code to not point to SF, I'm removing the file now...', which would have wacked us with the clue bat. And it's a bit tough to ask us to remember things 8 months out of context...
But it is clear to me that you did try to do 'the right thing', and we jumped down your throat a bit too quickly.
Sorry about that.
I just don't think it's nice to violate the sf.net rules, and I beleive it's disrispectful to other projects. Closed source files can be useful to linux users, but thins is no excuse. If the wine community thinks this the sf TOS isn't important, fine, but I disassociate myself from such a decision.
I think we all agree that we want to respect their wishes.
Jer tells me it's deleted now; anyone still pointing to SF needs to update ASAP.
Cheers,
Jeremy