Clarification on my call for license change

[Jeremy White]

On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 14:35, Sean Farley wrote:
> On 15 Feb 2002 08:58, Jeremy White wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 09:49, Roland wrote:
> > > At 08:19 AM 2/15/02 -0600, Jeremy White wrote:
> > > >Several people have asked me to clarify my original post.
> > >
> > > I just don't understand one thing:
> > > How does your company expect to make money once WINE is xGPLed? If all your
> > > code has to be contributed back, why should I buy it from your company?
> > >
> >
> >     Well, for one, we have a proprietary product that links to
> > Wine; we would continue to sell that.
> 
> Why hasn't this already been GPL'd?

Here's the 'official' rationale...

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover/the_real_dirt.php#j

Jer