\begin{Peter Hardy}
> On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 10:39, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > <quote who="Peter Hardy">
> > > Commercial software, but well worth the price, and the money gets poured
> > > back in to wine development.
> >
> > Proprietary! We use Free commercial software *every* day.
>
> Pedant! :-)
> Free software, with some proprietary commercial glue, then?
note that as of a week or two ago, wine is now LGPL (instead of X11ish)
- mostly because codeweavers(*) (who make the crossover plugin) had become
aware of some nasty proprietariness afoot.
yay for the commercial wine companies and they're willingness to contribute
back, even though they have not been required to (until now).
(*) at least, i think it was them. it was definately one of the 3 (or so)
companies actively/commercially involved in wine.
if anyone thinks license discussions tend to never get anywhere, flicking
back through the wine archives and seeing how this license change was
quite quickly decided is probably worth the effort. alexandre is to be
congratulated. (there was even reference made to a summary of the MPL
license made by anand back in the early mozilla days.)
--
- Gus
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
