Lindows screenshots

Steve Langasek vorlon at dodds.net
Wed Jan 9 18:45:24 CST 2002


On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, James Tabor wrote:

> Bang Jun-Young wrote:

> > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 08:06:11AM -0800, Bill Medland wrote:
> > > I wouldn't hold my breath; why would they contribute the valuable stuff
> > > back?

> > What do you think of people that have contributed their invaluable
> > time/money/energy/passion/etc to Wine for last years? :P

> Personally I would be pissed off if someone is making money after all the
> work I had but into a "Free Project" assuming it would be free for everyone
> else to use, including the source.

> I guess the project should change the license to LGPL and make it
> retroactive and enforce it.

Once a license has been granted, it can't be unilaterally revoked.
Although going forward Wine could be distributed under a different license
than the present one, past decisions will stand.

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer





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