Installshield 6 (inter-proc) patches

[Alexandre Julliard]

John Alvord <jalvo at mbay.net> writes:

> One possible trap to getting toward a GPL. If I remember right, the
> last time, you had to get consensus. If "pseudo-open-source" company
> had contributed code, you would need their permission and they don't
> have to agree.

Consensus is only needed to make incompatible changes. Switching to a
license whose restrictions are compatible with the current one doesn't
require special agreement from anybody, since the agreement is
implicit in the current license. GPL, LGPL, BSD, and just about all
free or non-free licenses are compatible with the X11 one, so that
wouldn't be a problem. Anybody can take the existing Wine and release
it under the LGPL; but of course this is useless if developers don't
agree to use the new license for future developments.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com