On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Patrik Stridvall wrote:
The problem is the doctrine of derived works. Nothing else.
And to you truly believe that our choice for Wine's license will have any influence over the doctrine of derived works?
Of course not. But it _will_ effect our abillity to attract companies.
Eventually I think the courts, possibly with the help of the politicians will realize that only a very weak doctrine of derived work could every service society without introduces needless uncertainties and/or absurdities.
For example I think that some cases where the doctrine of derived work has been used like IIRC in some case considering unauthorised Star Trek books. Using the Star Trek characters in a book without Paramounts(?) permission, would be much better served using trademark law instead. This might or might not require changing trademark law but that is a different issue.
Don't expect it to happend soon though.
If not, there really is no point in discussing this any further. If yes, than even more so should we chose the LGPL, as it will help settle the debate the right way.
See reply in previous mail.
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Patrik Stridvall