I like the LGPL and all, but I think converting to this license will hurt greatly the current projects such as Lindows and Transgaming and, in proxy, hurt wine. Mindshare is important, and to see Wine in succesful projects helps people to realize it as a viable product.
I don't think anybody is turned off from developing wine with its current license, but the change would turn away many I'm sure. Some people get thier paychecks working on Wine (Transgaming). I think TG has done great things for Wine, and I wouldn't have supported them had they not promised to release thier changes back to the main wine tree.
Lindows, however, can eat it. By not intending release thier changes and to sieze the Wine code to make it thiers for profit, I cannot, and will not support them.
What I would like to see is a new licence that sees that all forks move back into the main wine tree at regular intervals, say, after 6 months or a year while still allowing companies to do what they will with the code.
We aren't looking to stifle innovation here, I like the TG subscription model, and I would probably contribute in that kind of fashion to many projects, but there must be an incentive to do so (like TG's DirectX work)
I am against a change to LGPL, but I realize the current license is allowing lindows to stand on the shoulders of giants and wearing a long overcoat to cover it up, and that is just wrong.
Dave Jones - dajones@purdue.edu
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Dave Jones