Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.com wrote:
My conclusion is that there clearly isn't enough support in the developers community to justify changing the license. So I'm not going to proceed with any change, either now or in the foreseeable future.
hurrah.
before this is concluded, I will add one thing just for the sake of archival (in case this comes up again). If ALL of wine were strictly LGPLed, basically, *all* propriatary extensions could no longer be included. Why? Because the output of winebuild will be LGPLed, thus no propriatary programs could use its output in creating a shared library. winebuild is like bison in this case, and the output of bison has a special exemption so that you can use it in something other than *GPLed programs.
This inadvertant problem is precisely why *GPLed stuff has to be scrutinized carefully if you care about commercial relationships (most *GPL projects don't care) and is why commerical interests are wary of projects with a *GPL license.
-r