At 02:19 AM 2/16/2002, Patrik Stridvall wrote:
So now you've made your point, constantly, how about we just take it for granted that for every email sent to the list saying 'the
gpl is good
because...' you and Patrik will reply with 'No! It's evil, RMS is satan, viral licensing, noone will use it, blah blah blah'....
I have never said that. I do admit that Brett Glass have said that.
No, I never have.
You haven't? OK, perhaps not word by word, but I fully understand if people interpret your position that way.
I'm sorry if I sound a little angry but it seems that some of people have found me guilty by association with you and that irritates me quite a bit.
What you are doing IMHO is pure fear mongering, it will not help the case against LGPL.
I firmly believe that the GPL and the LGPL has a place in the world. However that place is not in Wine project.
The LGPL is IMHO for libraries that are pure libraries and have all functions implemented.
Wine fullfills neither the pure criteria nor the have all functions implemented criteria.
In such cases this allows bugfixes to go back, but new functions can be put in the application or in a new library not nessarily in the library itself that have to be under the LGPL.
Then companies can choose for themselves whether they want the LGPL protection for their new functions or not.