Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7

Unga unga888 at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 11 07:29:54 PST 2007


--- Tom Evans <tevans.uk at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 23:44 -0500, Tom Wickline
> wrote:
> > On Dec 10, 2007 11:41 PM, Brett Glass
> <brett at lariat.net> wrote:
> > > It's worth noting that the WINE project, not
> long ago, abandoned
> > > the BSD license for the GPL despite urging from
> many sources to keep
> > > the code open and free for use by developers.
> We've stopped using it
> > > as a result.
> > >
> > > --Brett Glass
> > >
> > 
> > Wins is under a free licence, its LGPL and I'm
> almost 100% sure you
> > have no idea why
> > the licence was changed!
> > 
> > Tom
> 
> Depends upon your definition of free.
> 

Definition:
GPL: Restrictions sugar coated as "Free as Freedom"

BSD: Free as Freedom

Tom Wickline, care to explain why the license was
changed? :)





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