John Alvord jalvo@mbay.net writes:
One possible trap to getting toward a GPL. If I remember right, the last time, you had to get consensus. If "pseudo-open-source" company had contributed code, you would need their permission and they don't have to agree.
Consensus is only needed to make incompatible changes. Switching to a license whose restrictions are compatible with the current one doesn't require special agreement from anybody, since the agreement is implicit in the current license. GPL, LGPL, BSD, and just about all free or non-free licenses are compatible with the X11 one, so that wouldn't be a problem. Anybody can take the existing Wine and release it under the LGPL; but of course this is useless if developers don't agree to use the new license for future developments.