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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. Inevitable by linuxdoctor · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I suppose that this is the thin edge of the wedge of Corporate America into our world. Wine is one of many making the jump from the "freedom for everyone" GPL to the "freedom for producers" BSD license or other "less restrictive" licenses.

    It's amazing how they call a license that mandates freedom and requires you to contribute to the common good "restrictive," and by contrast a license that allows others to poach and return nothing is labelled as "more free."

    That ranks up there with Bill Gates talking about "freedom to innovate." Pure sophistry.

    The sad part is that most people won't see anything wrong in this and, blinded by the almighty (American) dollar, jump onto the bandwagon.

    It was inevitable I suppose, as Linux is now on the verge of making really big money and go toe-to-toe with Microsoft in a few years.

  2. Well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I think I should fork the project before this happens, not that I ever use Wine, I just hate FSF/GNU and fascism it forces upon me.

    I'm glad that more people has come to realise that X11/BSDL is the way forward, and GNU hinders progress.

    1. Re:Well by Lord+Hugh+Toppingham · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      You know, I had never really thought about it before
      but the GPL manages the amazing feat of combining
      the worse excesses of Communism with the control-freakery
      of Fascism. No wonder Stallman is such a strange character.
      The cognative dissonance must be almost unbearable for him!

  3. 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?

    --
    "The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
  4. 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 ?