Dr. Seuss, licensing, and WINE

Medland, Bill Bill.Medland at accpac.com
Fri Feb 8 09:10:43 CST 2002


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dimitrie O. Paun [mailto:dimi at cs.toronto.edu]
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 6:35 AM
> To: Brett Glass
> Cc: wine-devel at winehq.com
> Subject: Re: Dr. Seuss, licensing, and WINE
> 
> 
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Brett Glass wrote:
> 
> > --Brett Glass (Who hasn't happened to contribute to WINE 
> yet, but may do so if
> > it remains open source)
> 
> Could you have finished wiht a more dumb line? LGPL _is_ open 
> source my
> friend, go read about it first.
> 
> I don't know about other people, but I'm so tired of these 
> arguments where
> LGPL is 'fascist', 'proprietary', 'not open source', etc. 
> Once again, we
> don't discuss what is important, but we keep arguing about mostly
> irrelevant things, just like last time... :(

Especially as the OP seems to be in favour of contributing to an "open
source" set of code that is used for the basis of a "commercial closed
source" product.

Bill




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