At 02:20 PM 16/12/2001 -0800, you wrote:
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.
Theoretically yes. The project leader has a much higher chance to do it successfully in fact. Since he is fixing the rules in the first place he has to be more responsible IMO.
It's simply part of the existing rules that the rules can change.
trusting people is always a problem, yes.
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).
it's for them (and possibly others professionals) to say then.
Gerard