Re: WineX and the AFPL
"Sean C. Farley" <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 28 May 2002 21:00, [email protected] wrote: > I am very upset about this news. If I ever -did- (*cough*) do some > WINE work, there is -no way- I would duel license it under X11 now. > While the X11 legally allows them to do anything they want with the > code, I think that their reaction to this abominal. In fact, if you'll > excuse the bad pun, it seems TG are emulating more than just > Microsofts APIs :) > > The fact TG are willing, if needed, to change the license of their > code if someone distributes binaries of it is just wrong. Sure, Gav > doesn't "want" to do it, but that he says it might be considered isn't > saying he "wont". Isn't this only affecting the binary distribution of a light version of WineX? Does it really matter? As a FreeBSD user, nearly everything I run enters my box as source code and is then compiled on it. What about just distributing the source code and compiling it on that box when requested by the user? > Mind you, this is pretty much just extending from the lack of major > coe released fram TransGaming. I guess, when you look at the big > picture, stopping binary distribution also is just the next logical > step :P According to Gav, TransGaming has released a lot of code. Legally, they did not have to release a single line of code. Demanding even a single line of code from someone else is being greedy. IMO, if anyone wants code someone else has written, they can ask for it and/or write it themselves. > Bad showing of community spirit IMHO, although not any more than > usual.. and I think that anyone contributing to ReWind should be well > aware of the fact that TransGaming might put this restriction in > place. Making a request is not bad community spirit. It looks like they do not like it being distributed just under the name of WineX. Maybe another name would make everyone happy? > On Tue, 28 May 2002, Joerg Mayer wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 23:28:56 +0200 > > From: Joerg Mayer <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: WineX and the AFPL > > > > Just found this on /. > > > > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/28/1515220&mode=nested&tid=125 Sean -------------- [email protected]