On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 09:13:15AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 03:50:56PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: > > Seems Slashdot is fast today ;-) > > > They already have a thread about the proposed license change running. > > > One guy made an interesting suggestion: > > a "dual license" scheme (like MySQL uses) where you switch to (L)GPL, > > but certain companies are allowed to take code without contributing > > everything and their arms and legs back... > > If that's the wish of the Wine community (as opposed to the wish of a > group of armchair quarterbacks on Slashdot who've never written a line of > published code), then there's no need for a license change at all. The > present license allows one to take the Wine code and use/redistribute it > under the LGPL at any time. Eh ? How so ? :)
This wouldn't result at all in not having a need to change the license. Currently everybody can rob the hell out of us (yeah, I know, drastic words :). With "selective" licensing, you could make "beneficial" companies benefit. Anyway, that was only some suggestion of some /. guy, not sure whether it's a good idea. -- Andreas Mohr Stauferstr. 6, D-71272 Renningen, Germany Tel. +49 7159 800604 http://home.nexgo.de/andi.mohr/
