Gerard Patel gerard.patel@nerim.net writes:
Transgaming is playing by the existing rules, the rules you have enforced for a long time. If they are hurting you, that's surprising. They are not hurting me, since I have accepted your rules. What you are planning will hurt Transgaming business plan, by spreading Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt in their business discussions with potential customers. Business plan that they did and implemented in good faith, perfectly conforming to your rules and expecting their stability.
Well, this sounds like an argument for the LGPL. There is absolutely no guarantee of stability with the X11 license; anybody can start a Wine tree under another license, and if developers think this is a good idea there is nothing I or anybody else can do to prevent it. It's simply part of the existing rules that the rules can change.
I'd have no objection to Gpl *if* people having invested money in Wine success accept the move without problem. I think you should feel more responsibility towards people investing in Wine, not only responsibility towards the project - in other words you, because you are the Wine project.
You know, that's exactly why we are having this discussion. If I was as selfish as you seem to think, I could change the license today without asking anybody. I'm not doing it precisely because I *do* care what people think, and I won't make the change unless it is acceptable to at least a large majority of the people affected by the change (and yes that includes Transgaming).