Re: WineX and the AFPL

Alexandre Julliard wrote:

>Patrik Stridvall <[email protected]> writes:
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>>Sure in the case of Wine patches it could be a connection.
>>But it is be up to YOU to prove it. Not I.
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>>In any case one thing that indicates that it might not be so is
>>that most developers have giving permission to Rewind to use their
>>code and thus they still effectively use the X11 license.
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>>So I think you have to find the reason for the increase elsewhere.
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>Well, I can give you a couple of reasons:
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>First I have been able to merge all the LGPL code from Crossover
>Office (approx. 700Kb of diffs); this couldn't have been merged into
>an X11 tree.
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>Second, all the dll separation and related stuff that I did can be
>directly traced to the license change. It's stuff that needed doing
>for a long time, but it's not the most exciting thing to do and I
>simply couldn't find the motivation anymore to do it under an X11
>license, for all the reasons I have already explained.
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>Given that there is no evidence whatsoever that the LGPL has caused
>harm (and no, Transgaming hasn't stopped contributing as you seem to
>think, they have submitted some patches since the change), I think
>it's a reasonable conclusion to say that 3 months after the change the
>LGPL has already helped Wine a good deal. No it's not a mathematical
>proof, so feel free to continue denying it if that makes you happy.
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You also got us *GPL zellots working for on wine too <grin>


Tony Lambregts