At 11:16 AM 2/18/02 +0100, Boris Buegling wrote:
sells this whole package. With LGPL, they had to give the code back or they can't do their project. Since they are not giving back their code, there is no loss in not doing their project for the WINE project as a whole. A coding
There is no loss for WINE, ok, but there is no win also. So where is the advantage of the lGPL? Furthermore it is not so clear that they won't contribute code back in the future. Look at Apple for example, they use FreeBSD but contributed the core of their OS X to the community: http://developer.apple.com/darwin/ Transgaming announced that they will contribute code back. But even if they don't my arguments are still valid.
company like Lindows gain everything, without giving anything back. That is the
Not only Lindows gains. Every user of WINE gains. And you have to agree that most users probably are not developers, so they didn't contribute anything back. At least this will be the case once WINE is stable and running. And you seem to miss an important point. Lindows gains mostly by adding a lot of features to the free WINE(read Brett Glass economic analysis in one of his emails please). Whats so bad about that? If this was an easy job to do, CodeWeavers(or any other company) could do that. Why aren't they doing it themselves? Because it costs a lot. Lindows is investing like 5 Million at least to make their WINE run properly, and they didn't get a cent back for it until now. Why do you want to prevent them from doing that? I think it is very good that the WINE project gives opportunity to build businesses and employ people! It's an illusion to think that Lindows is making money out of the free WINE. They are making money by investing hard cash...
problem that Jeremy sees and that you ignore. If Codeweavers release their code under LGPL and the main WINE tree would be BSD, all would be fine: Companies could not use Codeweavers code in close-source projects, while non-profit
Again, why shouldn't companies be able to use WINE code in their closed source projects?
The fact that Jeremy doesn't like the way things are going is probably because he fears that his own business is going to suffer under it.
Best regards, Roland