On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Well, let me tell you this: > > Most of Wine developers are hired by those companies who develop wine - > Transgaming, Code-Weavers, and I think Lindows got some people too.... > > So far - Transgaming & Code Weavers have contributed lots of work. Just > recently transgaming had contributed the major speed enhanced to 2D display, > some interprocess work and other stuff, while CodeWeavers have donated most > of their work on the crossover plugin to the main tree of wine. > > As I write this email I'm chatting with Gavriel State, the CEO of transgaming > who is preparing now a 10,000 line diff patch to be merge back to wine, and > from what I hear from some source in Lindows - expect some major source code > contribution from them also once the product will be out. > > Of course - in all cases you won't get 100% of the code back (and they don't > have to) or their business will be shut down, but as you can see - they DO > contribute back.. > > BTW: GPL, LGPL licenses are definately not acceptable by any of thewine > developers.
Actually, accorsing to the story linked here (the "digest" from kernel-cousines-wine), there was a group of developers who wanted to use LGPL. GPL is certainly not acceptable there, as they want to allow proprietary windows code to be linked against it. LGPL does not prevent that. It allows everybody to link whatever code they have with wine's libraries. However, if they make any changes to wine's libraries, they have to make those changes available. It can be even claimed to protect the "investment of code" that those companies have done. They are guaranteed that nobody else will hijack the codebase that they have written and contributed. [ I realise the obvious points that those companies have for using the X11 license, and releasing code when they feel they can/want. I'm not trying to argue with that ] -- Tzafrir Cohen /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
