Wine BSD Fork 'Rewind' Emerges

Moridineas writes: "Since the wine project decided to change from an X11 style license to an LGPL license, a BSD fork has emerged, called Rewind (for 'Re-engineering Windows,' or something like 'Rewind to the old Windows days' in the words of Ove Kaaven) and currently hosted at http://rewind.sourceforge.net (but looking for a new home). The announcement of the fork and some additional information was posted to the wine-license mailing list [winehq.com]. At least one company [transgaming.com] has already stated that they will not be able to work with the LPGL wine (citing among other things, possible DMCA violations) and will be actively helping Rewind (with cash and code it seems)."

Comments

I find this cool!

[mirabilos]

If this is going to be a more qualitative version
of Win32 I find this really cool.
Ok, Microsoft will be able to integrate parts
of Rewind into Windows, but, hey, BSD spirit is
not "Let's make free software better!" but more
like "Let's make _all_ software better!"
Probably even some folks at Microsoft will be able
to contribute to Rewind - hey am I dreaming?
Anyways, let's see which one will be better than
the other one, which evolves to the more accepted.

If only the Rewind developers would care about it
running on OpenBSD... the last Wine that did is
from 1999, because it is said to require new
binutils (which OpenBSD doesn't have on i386
because it uses a.out-bsd format and not ELF)
and kernel threads.