-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/01/2010 12:38 AM, Rishi wrote: > Please dual-license the wine launcher under BSD/LGPL like mono does? > You can still keep libs under LGPL because developers can rewrite libs using WINE launcher if they want to. > Please note proprietary is not bad and the main contributor, Code Weavers, is a type of proprietary organization. A great deal of contribution to free software is done by organizations who also deal in proprietary software. That in itself doesn't alleviate the concern that proprietary licensing strips the user of their freedom and gives the developer unjust power over them. The organizations that work with free software communities do so because they need free software, too. It is regrettable when those organizations choose to benefit by using free software, but give less than 100% of their work back to the community as free software in return. Your request gives away your intentions from the start, since you aren't advocating that the wine launcher be made proprietary. Would you like that? Since you are telling us not to think that proprietary software is bad, surely making the whole thing proprietary would suit you? Or not? Its seems more likely to me that you intend to take some portion of the code in wine launcher, put it into a proprietary work, and not share that work with the rest of us. The original work of WINE was provided to you with freedom and source code. I see no reason why anyone would consider your request, since it doesn't seem to me that you are planning to reciprocate. Bryan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMzcf0AAoJEHblvm1J+WqML9AH/00msZuziLkQG49KKMA94pXq D59sVKfhzyThH71CNEOh2FJlQRR5h6zwguiVqzICK5QM4Y4mP5b2h1SBRSQTgsva 8r1pfeBEfyDaTjjXYJBXknRpCfUhjw0XoHl6Y/CkP0gwh/vmThgcqOkZe8i44AMO AhyPhL0BiOiHTYJp1cWx3hQnGCrKEooT/yuv6ndJuqGBiqLDj+HSpOjVC8Dpwjf4 N5+HNZWAF6IHHC+T41+O0qbFzbNcoKFpgB6UJzCaLK9VAkvtkTrtqmfzszhWjfxv NtJLs+n2jh3BwR0rdYG+rIYyRLUu7HAdr3UWfEqPk0W85FWCXvLnq9SHbPN+ViA= =Lls5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
