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Wine Continues To Move Towards License Change

Posted by Hemos on from the moving-slowly-and-carefully dept.

uhmmmm writes "The Wine developer's votes are in. Wine will change license, as was suggested would happen, but it's not yet decided to what exactly. Alexandre notes 'We now have to decide the implementation details, like the exact license used, whether to require copyright assignments, etc.'"

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  1. Re:I dont get it by Tet · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Wouldn't it be great if a large number of companies were to figure out what wine is and how they can use it and finally put up some competition for Microsoft?

    Sigh. Go away and come back when you've worked out that the LGPL doesn't prevent that... what it does prevent is people enhancing WINE and not sharing those enhancements, which doesn't help WINE, and doesn't help the community. In fact, the only potential winner is the bottom line of the company in question, and even that's doubtful. To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever gone into direct competition with MS on the desktop and come out on top. WINE (either with its existing license, or with LGPL) allows companies to take it, and build a closed source, proprietary app on top of it, and try and sell it for money. How is that hindering the industry? How is it hindering WINE?

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  2. Re:The BSD license would seem to be best. by Salsaman · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    You are the twat. The recent misinterpretation and FUD based on bugtraq's statistics has been definitively shown to be false .

    But you knew that anyway and went on to troll and insult me.

    How much is M$ paying you, and was it worth it for your soul ?