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Debian And WineX

Posted by Hemos on from the i-wanna-install dept.

fdsa writes "After a heated debate, and under some pressure by TransGaming, an 'intent to package' WineX from sourceforge CVS for (non-free) Debian has been withdrawn. The message provides a good summary of the recent Wine chaos, and notes how WineX is effectively under a different license than stated. Here's a mail from their CEO Gavriel State on the issue."

2 of 274 comments (clear)

  1. What's the big deal? by pyros · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think the CEO's email makes their concern quite clear. They acknowledge that the current license can't prevent anyone from making a debian package. I think he's presented quite a reasonable argument for third parties re-packaging their code. What it doesn't address is why they don't make debian packages themselves. (please forgive me if they do, I don't use any flavor of Wine, and the CEO's email seemes to imply they don't, and have canceled plans to do so.)

  2. Fool me once.... by KernelHappy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This just illustrates why its important to understand the license governing a project before contributing to it. It is also the reason why the OSI keeps a list of approved licenses.

    If you didn't take time to understand the license before contributing to the project, you can't complain that you don't like the result.

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    -- Button up, your ignorance is showing