Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7

Braulio José Solano Rojas braulio at solsoft.co.cr
Tue Dec 11 07:39:28 PST 2007


On Mon, 10 de Diciembre de 2007, 10:41 pm, Brett Glass 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.

You can find the story of what happened in the Wikipedia.  There is still
this:  http://www.cedega.com/rewind/, if you like better the X11 license. 
You still have *freedom* of choice.

Regardless of the current license of Wine they have merit for what they
have done.  Any open source developer regardless of his "Creed" has merit
in fact.

;-)

> At 10:59 AM 12/6/2007, Tom Wickline wrote:
>
>>Oh yea, were seeking contributors... if your interested in Wine on
>>FreeBSD and believe you can
>>help us out see :
>>http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/12/wine-review-is-currently-seeking.html



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