At 02:20 PM 16/12/2001 -0800, you wrote: >Well, this sounds like an argument for the LGPL. There is absolutely >no guarantee of stability with the X11 license; anybody can start a >Wine tree under another license, and if developers think this is a >good idea there is nothing I or anybody else can do to prevent it.
Theoretically yes. The project leader has a much higher chance to do it successfully in fact. Since he is fixing the rules in the first place he has to be more responsible IMO. >It's simply part of the existing rules that the rules can change. trusting people is always a problem, yes. >You know, that's exactly why we are having this discussion. If I was >as selfish as you seem to think, I could change the license today >without asking anybody. > I'm not doing it precisely because I *do* care >what people think, and I won't make the change unless it is acceptable >to at least a large majority of the people affected by the change (and >yes that includes Transgaming). it's for them (and possibly others professionals) to say then. Gerard
