Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2008, Ch? Kristo wrote:
>>
>> Resources:
>> Blastwave wine: http://www.blastwave.org/wine/
>
> Someone needs to inform the (unidentified) maintainer of Blastwave
> wine that he is violating Wine's GPL license by not providing the Wine
> source code used to build the binaries he offers for download.
> Offering patches against some old Wine source code which is (or is
> not) available from some other site is not sufficient to satisfy GPL.
> If this is not fixed soon, then Blastwave should simply remove the
> 'wine' section since surely Blastwave does not want to intentionally
> violate open source licenses. This section is quite an embarrassment
> to Blastwave and casts a shadow on the entire project.
>
> I noticed this deficiency a while back when I wanted to build Wine on
> Solaris. It made me rather angry since the source code the patches
> are supposed to apply to is very old and difficult (if not impossible)
> to find.
Hi Bob,
Did you attempt to notify the Blastwave maintainers yourself?
cheers,
steve
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