Re: Dangerous back door in the LGPL
Matt Seitz <[email protected]>
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--- Francois Gouget <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Matt Seitz wrote: > > I think I see your point. If Microsoft bought the FSF, what could happen > is: > > 1. The FSF issues LGPL 3, which says "Only Microsoft can distribute this > > work". > > 2. Microsoft distributes MS-WINE under LGPL 3. Microsoft does not have to > > distribute source, and no one but Microsoft can distribute MS-WINE or any > > derivative work. > > This does not prevent others from redistributing Wine under the terms of > the LGPL 2.1 unless they also modified the COPYING.LIB file in the Wine > sources that says 'under the terms of the [...] version 2.1 of the > License, or...'. True, but I assume if Microsoft went to the trouble of buying the FSF, issuing an LGPL 3, and creating an MS-WINE version, then they would not be stupid enough to leave such an obvious back door. They would almost certainly ammend COPYING.LIB so that the distribution terms for MS-WINE would be LGPL 3 only. ===== Sincerely, Matt Seitz __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com