wine license vote

[Shane Shields]

hello

after having contributed a couple patches (more to come im working on 
getCalenderInfo now) i feel i can say a couple of words.

i have been following the current "discussion" on the license change with 
avid interest (not to mention a few laughs). just to make sure im not 
speaking out of a red hat (i compiled my own linux) i downloaded a copy of 
the licenses in question and compared them side by side.

as everything that i wanted to ask has been discussed on the list with good 
points from both sides of the fence im not going to go over old ground.

i think that the lgpl license would be a better choice for WINE than the bsd 
license.

i know that some would disagree and some would agree thats the way the cookie 
crumbles. but i think that the most important thing is for people to make a 
decision for themselves and not to try to convince people that dont want to 
be convinced. its a waste of programming time and cpu cycles (sound familier 
m$).

Shane Shields

[Fruhwirth Clemens]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 09:29:51PM +0200, Shane Shields wrote:
> i know that some would disagree and some would agree thats the way the cookie 
> crumbles. but i think that the most important thing is for people to make a 
> decision for themselves and not to try to convince people that dont want to 
> be convinced. its a waste of programming time and cpu cycles (sound familier 
> m$).

voter education is a fundamental part of voting, not speak democracy itself.
nothing harms the voting process more than unreasonable voters, so it's good 
that there is discussion on licenses.
what's not good is that they are discussed over and over again. it's
duplicated work, which is just as worse as duplicated code.
this should be discussed once, it's conclusions should be written done in 
a book, and copies should be shipped to the whole open source community.

:)
clemens