[Gllug] Civilization for Linux

[David Damerell]

On Friday, 7 Feb 2003, Doug Winter wrote:
>On Thu 06 Feb Tethys wrote:
>>No. What they've done is perfectly legal. It's just not ethical or
>>(IMHO) a good idea. So I'm not prepared to support it. It essentially
>>highlights one of the dangers of BSD-like licensing.
>I'm not sure I would agree that it is unethical though - surely the
>point of the BSD license is specifically to *allow* this kind of thing.

I think the fact that WINE later switched to the LGPL suggests that
the developers didn't intend to allow this kind of thing, but simply
failed to consider the implications of BSD licensing.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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