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
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