Debian And WineX

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under some pressure by TransGaming, an 'intent to package' WineX from sourceforge CVS for (non-free) Debian has been withdrawn.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."

Comments

Re:Transgaming isn't bad.

[Clue4All]

Look at the facts. WINE got mad that Transgaming wasn't contributing fast enough, so they effectively took their ball and went home by changing their license on everyone. Transgaming now contributes to the Rewind project, which can accept their work and is glad to do so. Transgaming has done an excellent job making money in a way that still contributes to the community while offering an extremely valuable service. I'll give you a hint, there's a bad guy here, and it isn't Transgaming.

Re:Transgaming isn't bad.

[Havokmon]

Look at the facts. WINE got mad that Transgaming wasn't contributing fast enough, so they effectively took their ball and went home by changing their license on everyone. Transgaming now contributes to the Rewind project, which can accept their work and is glad to do so.

WINE got mad? Who controls the source tree?
CodeWeavers.
Who controls WINE?
Who got mad at TransGaming for not contributing fast enough?
Who doesn't want to 'trade code'?

Transgaming has offered to release some of it's heftier work in trade for more 'free' work on another area - which would be done for free anyways-, but that suggestion was refused. Apparently business need to carry more weight than people working on the side, but can't make any money on it either. Way to go guys!