| FSF asks Lindows: "Where's the source?" [Newsforge] |
Apr. 12, 2002
Newsforge editor, Tina Gasperson, reports on a request by the FSF to view Lindows source code. Gasperson writes . . .
"Bradley Kuhn, vice president of the Free Software Foundation, says the organization is contacting LindowsOS representatives because the company has not included source code with its 'sneak preview' releases. Lindows CEO Michael Robertson says his company will comply with the GPL when the product is released to the public."
". . . A high level source at Codeweavers confirms that Lindows has indeed contributed an 'enormous amount' of code to the Wine project. But while Crossover Office contains code that was created in conjunction with Lindows, it has also been built on code that was around before Lindows existed. According to the Codeweavers source, Lindows returned modifications to the Wine codebase only because it was persuaded by Codeweavers staff to return it. The Codeweavers/Lindows association was terminated in part because Lindows wanted to be able to keep its Wine modifications private."
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