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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. Should be a BSD style license by johnburton · · Score: 0, Troll

    It should be a BSD style licence so that people can use it how they like. Or else people will just use windows instead.

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  2. Re:The BSD license would seem to be best. by Lord+Hugh+Toppingham · · Score: 0, Troll
    The point is, hardly anyone reads these licenses. In the case of Windows software, they just click 'I Agree' and in the case of Linux software, they actually have to be aware that there is a LICENSE.TXT file and go and read it.


    Combine this obscurantism with the fact that a large proportion of IT management are borderline illiterate, and certinly have little or no legal knowledge and you have a recipe for GPL disaster.


    Fortunately the GPL has never been upheld in a court of law, and never will be. How on earth can unzipping a tarfile possibly commit me to a legal contract ? Answer - It cannot. The GPL is really little more than RMS's Communist fantasy.


    Far better to simply use the BSD license. After all since the GPL has no legal standing, by using the GPL you are effectively using the BSD license anyway.

  3. Re:The BSD license would seem to be best. by Lord+Hugh+Toppingham · · Score: 1, Troll
    Its not "stealing". The BSD license gives corporations the freedom to make money from their development efforts, unlike the GPL.


    Its interesting you mentioned Apple. Apple currently has the most fantastic version of Unix ever developed thanks to the BSD license.


    Now you can argue till your blue in the face about free as in beer or free as in speech. Fact is for around the same price as a redhat distro, you can buy MacOS X - and have a Unix experience which is orders of magnitude more pleasant than the insecure, bug-ridden, inconsistent GUI nightmare that is Linux and X11.


    So yes, BSD is an evil capitalist license. It just so happens that the USA is an evil capitalist country. If you want Communism, go to Europe and use the GPL. If you love your country and want to help in the war against terrorism, BSD is the way to go.

  4. Re:Have you read the BSD license? by QuantumG · · Score: 0, Troll

    They asked permission, look it up.

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  5. Re:Have you read the BSD license? by QuantumG · · Score: 0, Troll

    how would ya be, inheriting the copyright for ping, you could shut down the web!

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