Re: Should Wine move to LGPL 3?

[Damjan Novak]

On 7/24/07, Scott Ritchie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


MS explicitly excluded Wine from that deal anyway.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie





I dont think that it matters what the patent covenant covers or not
for this to work, all it takes is that they distribute it via vouchers
as part of the SuSE distribution, and with some luck in the unfolding
of these events, LGPLv3 patent provisions might disarm them by itself,
but IANAL...

Should Wine move to LGPL 3?

[Damjan Novak]

Hi! I  just stumbled on this list and discussion, and though to just
mention a highly speculative, but potentially very rewarding advantage
of using LGPLv3 for wine.

According to this opinion at groklaw:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070709101318827
Microsoft MIGHT end up being effectively forced to distribute GPLv3
code under the deal with Novell, and hence loose any chance to sue
about patents any so licenced projects included in SuSE, and I suppose
wine is included in that distro.

Given the nature of the wine project, Im thinking it could benefit
greatly from such potential shelding from Microsofts patent portfolio,
if things happen to unfold in this very optimistic scenario..

just a thought...