RE: WineX and the AFPL

> On May 30, 2002 11:24 am, Patrik Stridvall wrote:
> > Back to Wine. We doesn't really disagree on the goals, that 
> is not the
> > problem. The means (the LGPL) is the problem. Please focus on that
> > instead of trying to sell the goal to people that already 
> mostly agree.
> 
> It seems to me that the BSD advocates fall into 2 groups (or 
> use 2 main
> arguments):
>   1) if you want to share and have fun, BSD is the way to go
>   2) the BSD license is actually better for the project.
> 
> My message addressed the first group / line of reasoning.
> 
> As for 2), I don't see how you can still maintain it is true, 
> after it's been
> proven time and again that it's not. 

I don't see how it has been proved that LGPL is right or BSD is wrong at
all.

The primary thing that have happend is that Transgaming have stopped
contributing. I don't see how you can call that a good thing let alone
a proof.

Then you know nothing about companies that what thinking about investing
in Wine but didn't because of the LGPL.

> You can pretend to live 
> in a different
> world (and certainly many people do, may atimes helped by various
> substances), but I'm afraid that does not change the cold reality that
> most of us live in :).

I'm sorry to say that that it is entirely possible that the opposite
is true. That your observation of reality is wrong.

But lets not get into ad hominem attacks. It serves nobody.