Russell Jackson wrote:
Brett Glass wrote:
At 10:01 AM 12/11/2007, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_%28software%29
"... originally released Wine under the same MIT License as the X
Window System, but owing to concern about proprietary versions
of Wine not contributing their changes back to the core project,
work as of March 2002 has used the LGPL"
What apparently happened is that one or two of the developers of Wine
got their knickers in a twist about the idea that -- heaven forbid! --
someone might possibly make some money for the enhancements they made
to Wine.
Don't FUD. Nothing stops anyone from making money off GPL'ed software. The real
reason is
that TransGaming et al weren't contributing anything back and wouldn't provide
the source
to users who bought binaries in a usable fashion.
What a huge distortion. How many company conferences have you sat in
on, as company lawyers tried to figure out what would have to change if
they used GPL software? If you say "none" then you are either lying or
you haven't been called into those meetings (lucky you). No such
problems with BSD. The GPL folks want to be able to coerce folks into
doing things their way, but don't want to be seen as coercing folks, so
they do a Wink'N'A'Nod towards the truth. It's still coercion.
(Never mind that the marketing and development costs for their
commercial versions of Wine were eating all of their profits, and it was
unclear whether they actually WOULD make any money.) Also, it is rumored
(though I have not seen proof of it) that John Gilmore, an underwriter of
the Wine project, threatened to withdraw support from some of these
developers unless the license was switched to the GPL, thus forcing their
hands.
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