Re: Economics and the GPL

"Sean C. Farley" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.wine.license
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On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:45, John Alvord wrote:

> Deven - can you give some explanation of why Transgaming recently
> relased much of the "disputed" source code to the ReWind (X11) tree.
> They didn't release (what I consider to be) their core improvements
> but just about everything else.

If it is not the core improvements as you say, it is probably the code
that holds no strategic value to them.  As for others, it may be very
important code.

> What do you suppose the motivation was?

I suppose it would be to lower the cost of development.  Why continue to
sync non-strategic code with a moving base when you can just release it?

Sean
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