SpecOpS Labs Response to Wine Project

Kelly McNeill writes "osViews/osOpinion received the following letter from SpecOpS Labs. This letter is in response to the WINE HQ Weekly Newsletter, Issue 222 dated May 14, 2004, entitled "PROJECT DAVID USES CODEWEAVERS CROSSOVER OFFICE". Their objective in writing this letter is to clear up some of the issues raised on the statements contained in the aforementioned Newsletter, which they believe might misrepresent their efforts to expand the availability of Windows applications on Linux."

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[mgkimsal2]

The only time anyone is allowed to 'use' GPL software is after they downloaded it from sourceforge, joined the mailing lists/forums, and contributed back at least 10% of their available time to 'the project'. Furthermore, any GPL code which has a public profile (generally acknowledged to be something available in ebuilds, deb packages or - shudder - RPMs via apt-get or yum, or something which ships with a major distro) is only allowed to be used after approval by the package's original founders. Any other such use (like this Project David) constitutes an affront to the entire GPL community and a sorry understanding of nettiquette.