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-steve James Cornell wrote: > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -- stephen lau | stevel at opensolaris.org | www.whacked.net
