Wahh wahhh GPL wahh... James On May 28, 2008, at 9:39 AM, 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. > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
