Installshield 6 (inter-proc) patches

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Patrik Stridvall wrote:

> > This has been my argument against Patrick exactly.  Some 
> > protection is better than none at all.
> 
> As a general rule, yes.
> 
> However this time the protection comes with a price.

And what might that price be? You fear that we are going to alienate the
commercial ventures developed around Wine?

> The problem is not whether LGPL is well written or not the
> problem it is the doctrine of derived work. That is very
> unclear because of lack of good case law.

Oh, come on, for crying out loud! The LGPL is the best thing we have -- we
can't wait for a good case law to adopt a license. Yes, there may be
problems, but that's life. We take our best shot -- this is what we're
doing with Wine in the first place!

Patrik, your entire arguments are based on such obscure assumptions that's
scary! I must tell you, both the GPL and LGPL have received careful
scrutiny from FSF's legal council (and a bunch of other law professors,
I'm sure). It's the best we can hope for now. You come along with a bunch
of 'it is possible' type of scenarios (doh, everything is possible!), and
say that 'well, everything's in vain, we're doomed, there's no point in
doing anything, actually...'. In all honesty, it just looks stinks. Badly.

--
Dimi.