At 02:36 PM 2/25/02 -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
At 02:32 PM 2/25/2002, Andreas Mohr wrote:
I'm not much in favour of a license change, but if there's enough reason to believe that a "new" license boosts Wine's productivity, then I'm all for it.
There has been no credible evidence to that effect presented to date. However, the threats that a new license would pose to participation in the project by companies such as Transgaming or Lindows have been amply demonstrated.
--Brett Glass
Agreed. And I want to add that we also should think if the price we are paying with the license change in the long run is worth the EVENTUAL TEMPORARY boost in productivity. It MAY BE that now we have a temporary boost because one company wishes this license change and will start to contribute more after that. But it is not certain if that company will still be around in some years or if other companies will NOT contribute to WINE because of the new xGPL license. After all, if we wanted a productivity boost lets license all WINE code to Microsoft, I'm sure they would agree to help develop it further in turn :)))
Roland