At this time, I'm not a developer since i released no code for the moment, but I'm a contributor in the sense I made some bug reports.
But if I will release some code, this will be under a xGPL license. If there are forks, that's a good point, but only if the developer makes reference to the original code. Time of reinventing the wheel in every program is over ! xGPL is here ! --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > > Well, I'm fairly convinced after reading his > argument that LGPL is the > right way to go. I think it's better for the Wine > project over the long > term. > > For those companies who have built a business model > on closed source > enhancements to Wine, there is still a way to play > the game: > > At some point Wine is going to improve to the point > where the core code > works well enough to do almost everything we need. > There will always be > room for improvement, but the action may shift to > reimplementing Microsoft > applications that have important APIs (Internet > Explorer, Windows Media > Player...). > > I'm sure that Microsoft will change its EULAs to > prohibit use of > applications such as MSIE on a Non-Microsoft OS. It > has already started > doing this for some programs. > > Companies could respond by selling open or closed > source reimplementations > of these applications, bundled with a LGPL Wine. > There will always be > plenty of ways to add value on top of the core Wine > code. > > Meanwhile, LGPL ensures that core code improvements > will flow back to > benefit all, not just those individuals and > companies that have an > altruistic bent. > > Regards, > > Daniel Schwarz > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.winecentric.com > http://winecentric.com/wiki > > > ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.fr
