Re: WineX and the AFPL

On 30 May 2002 17:04, Alexandre Julliard wrote:

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> Go read Dimitrie's analogy about children. Would you let someone hurt
> your children even if they gave you a lot of money for that?  Would
> you be willing to even start negotiating a price?  There is simply no
> amount of money or code that Transgaming can offer me to convince me
> to make it easier for others to hurt a project that I have now spent 9
> years of my life working on. If they want to use my code in a way that
> actually helps the project instead of harming it, they can do it just
> fine under the terms of the LGPL, they don't need to negotiate a
> special permission. The reason they need the special permission is
> that they don't want to promise that they won't use my code in ways
> that harm the project; and I'm not interested in letting them use it
> under these terms.

Did you read my analogy concerning grandchildren?  Would you order your
children on how to raise their children?  I certainly hope you would not
no matter what someone paid you.  Advice is fine; commands are not.

I am getting quite upset with people accusing others of hurting any
project just from their existance.  Someone exists, therefore, it hurts
someone else.  Nonsense.

Sean
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