Re: Economics and the GPL
John Alvord <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 08:36:44 -0400 (EDT), "Deven T. Corzine" <[email protected]> wrote: >On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, 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. >> >> What do you suppose the motivation was? > >A gesture of good faith and support of the Rewind project? Probably hoping >to entice other developers to support that project? Just a guess, but that >seems like the most obvious answer... Since the code is now available to the Wine project, I was guessing it was an indirect signal to Wine LGPL developers (especially AJ) "asking" silently that the important item to TG (DLL separation) be released under a X11 license... sort of a unilateral trade offer... john alvord