RE: How big is the Direct3D stuff?

[Patrik Stridvall]

> At 06:00 PM 6/6/02 +0200, Lionel Ulmer wrote:
> > community's for not doing anything at all and letting things
>
> in the state it
> > was (well, not TG's fault except if you consider that they
>
> 'bought out' the
> > people who would have worked on it in their free time, but
>
> that is just
> > plain good business sense :-) ).
>
> What do you mean by 'bought out'? I suppose there where WINE 
> contributors 
> who now work for TG, right?

Yes.
> If this is the case it is another point in favour of the LGPL...

First of all since it was in parts their code the could have relicensed
it to whatever they wished, so that wouldn't have been that large
problem.

Secondly who are you to tell people what they can or can't do
for a living?

How big is the Direct3D stuff?

[Roland]

At 07:04 PM 6/6/02 +0200, Patrik Stridvall wrote:
> First of all since it was in parts their code the could have relicensed
> it to whatever they wished, so that wouldn't have been that large
> problem.

No quite true. If the code is based on previous LGPL code, they couldn't 
relicense it, unless they also coded all of that previous stuff. That's the 
whole point of the LGPL.
> Secondly who are you to tell people what they can or can't do
> for a living?

Huh? Did I say it was wrong what they did? Please provide some evidence, 
otherwise apologize...

Roland

How big is the Direct3D stuff?

[Francois Gouget]

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Roland wrote:
> At 07:04 PM 6/6/02 +0200, Patrik Stridvall wrote:

[...]
> > Secondly who are you to tell people what they can or can't do
> > for a living?
>
> Huh? Did I say it was wrong what they did? Please provide some evidence,
> otherwise apologize...

Patrik, Roland,

This is a fla^H^H^H debate for the wine-license mailing list. Let's try
to keep wine-devel productive and focus on what's the plan for
implementing Direct3D in Wine.

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