Re: [gentoo-dev] Winex-cvs being removed from portage?

[Luke-Jr <luke-jr@gentoo.org>]

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Yes, however, I believe WINE used a different license (BSD perhaps) at one 
point and changed to LGPL later. It it likely that WineX was forked from the 
earlier version.

On Friday 25 July 2003 02:31 pm, Adrian Almenar wrote:
> Winex is derived from wine and wine is NOT GPL is LGPL, AFAIK.
>
> Luke-Jr wrote:
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> >I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think WineX is licensed under the GPL.
> > Also, the GPL only requires that they give you the source with the
> > binary. As long as the subscribers can get the source with the binary,
> > nothing would stop them from denying the public access to it.
> >
> >On Friday 25 July 2003 03:47 am, Owen Gunden wrote:
> >>On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:01:37PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> >>>How about because they asked us to?  Essentially, we have been asked to
> >>>not create an automated process to allow a user to install winex from
> >>>cvs.  The anonymous cvs is there for people to assist in development
> >>>with winex.  Technically, there is nothing stopping us from continuing
> >>>to provide winex-cvs ebuilds.  However, Gentoo is part of a larger
> >>>community and quite simply, you don't maintain your status as a useful
> >>>member of the community if you go around pissing off your neighbors.  In
> >>>fact, there is nothing keeping Transgaming from pulling the anonymous
> >>>cvs access for the winex sources from sourceforge and making it
> >>>available to subscriber's only.
> >>
> >>Then why is the anonymous cvs access available in the first place?  Also,
> >>are you sure they don't have to release the source because of the GPL?
> >>IANAL, and I certainly don't know what I'm talking about.  Just
> >> wondering.
> >>
> >>Owen
> >>
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