Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7

[Russell Jackson]

Brett Glass wrote:
> At 10:01 AM 12/11/2007, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
>  
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_%28software%29
>>   "... originally released Wine under the same MIT License as the X
>>   Window System, but owing to concern about proprietary versions
>>   of Wine not contributing their changes back to the core project,
>>   work as of March 2002 has used the LGPL"
> 
> What apparently happened is that one or two of the developers of Wine
> got their knickers in a twist about the idea that -- heaven forbid! --
> someone might possibly make some money for the enhancements they made
> to Wine.

Don't FUD. Nothing stops anyone from making money off GPL'ed software. The real reason is
that TransGaming et al weren't contributing anything back and wouldn't provide the source
to users who bought binaries in a usable fashion.

> (Never mind that the marketing and development costs for their
> commercial versions of Wine were eating all of their profits, and it was
> unclear whether they actually WOULD make any money.) Also, it is rumored
> (though I have not seen proof of it) that John Gilmore, an underwriter of 
> the Wine project, threatened to withdraw support from some of these 
> developers unless the license was switched to the GPL, thus forcing their
> hands. 
> 

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