Comment Re:So what's stopping you now, then? (Score 2, Insightful) 318
If you choose the BSD licence, then you effectively tell the world that what TransGaming is doing is OK with you. Thus it is not a matter of respect if TransGaming keep their code to themselves. It would be a matter of disrespect if someone persistently demanded (and for no good reason maybe?) of the WINE project that they changed their licence.
> Has TransGaming contributed to the WINE project? Of course they have. But without the thousands of hours of DONATED time and effort done by other people working on the core of WINE, TransGaming would have nothing to base its work on.
What gives TransGaming the right to demand payment for its contributions, when so many more people have contributed as much or more and expecting no payment in return?
This is ridiculous. For each IF-THEN statement I write, I am not forced to go to the Temple of Logic to pray my thanks to Lord Aristotle for doing research on the precursor to first order logic.
If you need to stand on the shoulders of giants to make your livelyhood, then that's ok. Science and civilisation both depend on that ability. It is really only religious people who demand that "the spirit in which Plato did this or that" should be "respected" by all living beings for several hundred years to come.
>But the road that TranGaming has chosen I find distasteful and borderline extortive. How do you justify this behaviour?
I suppose they would simply deny that your personal view on their work is screwed and leave it at that?
