RE: Linus about GPL x BSD(long)

"[email protected]" <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Jul 2002 16:45:34 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.wine.license
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Microsoft put BSD code in windows to make in more stable!! The only
thing that stoped the same thing happeinig to Linux is the GPL license,
thats why they now hate it so buch, but they say thet BSD isn't that
bad. Even billy said that. And if we make wine better that windows one
day, the will be wine code in windows one day if we don't make it GPL.
> > > That is not really, true. Nobody can put another license on somebody
> > > elses code GPL or not.
> > 
> > 
> > *whistles to himself and pokes at the WineX license 
> > curiously, glancing
> > over at poor little X11 sitting in the corner crying to himself*
> > 
> > Well, if that's true in theory, it certainly doesn't seem to apply in
> > practice :)
> 
> Well actually even in practise the X11 licensed code in the WineX
> tree is and will always be X11 licensed code. Nothing can change
> that.
> 
> But yes, the pratical consequence of this is not very useful,
> but then the extra code is written by Transgaming and not
> by you so you really should be complaining should you?
>