From owner-freebsd-user-groups@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 13 03:12:39 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-user-groups@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD04716A418 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:12:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99EB813C45B for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:12:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: (qmail 21751 invoked from network); 13 Dec 2007 02:45:58 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 13 Dec 2007 02:45:58 -0000 Message-ID: <47609C43.6010304@chuckr.org> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:43:15 -0500 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071107 SeaMonkey/1.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Wickline References: <53e3a9930712060959t6f446534xee6ba49d043dd70a@mail.gmail.com> <200712110441.VAA05322@lariat.net> <53e3a9930712102044v768e794fq118e2fe3d6d2fa0d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53e3a9930712102044v768e794fq118e2fe3d6d2fa0d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Brett Glass , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, freebsd-user-groups@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-user-groups@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User Group Coordination List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:12:39 -0000 Tom Wickline wrote: > On Dec 10, 2007 11:41 PM, Brett Glass wrote: >> It's worth noting that the WINE project, not long ago, abandoned >> the BSD license for the GPL despite urging from many sources to keep >> the code open and free for use by developers. We've stopped using it >> as a result. >> >> --Brett Glass >> > > Wins is under a free licence, its LGPL and I'm almost 100% sure you > have no idea why > the licence was changed! > Anyone who has sat in on company conferences discussing what changes would be forced because of GPL or LPGL knows that only the BSD is free, not thje GPL. LRPL is closer, but the folks who call GPL free are either lying or ignorant. They want to force you to do things their way, but they don't want you to be able to call that coercion. > Tom > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"