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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: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.