Patrik Stridvall wrote: > The point is: > - The 100+ seat company gains. (They get support). > - Red Hat gains. (They get money). > - I gain. (I get money). > - But CodeWeavers, that did a lot of work on Wine, > doesn't gain anything and they are becaused of the LGPL > been forced to release all of their work. > > Sure they might gain back a few bug fixes if I had to > do in order to fix a few small flaws, but then Red Hat > probably would have let me release it anyway.
A few bug fixes? If it is important enough that such a big customer pays Red Hat for developing something then I guess that it is not only a few bug fixes we are talking about here. And that is to the advantage of CodeWeaver then because they gain also fucntionallity they might have needed to develop themself.