Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Jul 2007 22:30 UTC
The issue between WINE and Parallels has been solved. "On July 2nd, Parallels sent the modified sources to me (Stefan Dosinger). I looked at them, and they are functionally mostly unmodified, except of some changes to get wined3d to compile on Windows(nameless unions, and similar things). What is yet to be verified is if these are the sources used to build the libs shipped in Parallels Desktop for Mac."
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did they even ask them for the source first before going public?
You'd know this from RTFA, but yes. They contacted them nearly a month ago, and set up a very dry wiki page to keep track of the ongoing efforts - a wiki page they didn't publicize. It all came out when someone else stumbled upon the page and made it known.
In other words, WINE themselves never did go public with any complaints. The situation was discovered and reported by third parties, and only then did Parallels do anything. As far as I'm concerned, that shows a real lack of respect for the people who made the code they decided to use.
Still, Parallels likely should have mentioned wine in the doc and how to get the source.
They did mention an email address where people should write to get the code. They just didn't respond to said requests.
Claiming to make the code available but not doing so until public pressure is brought to bear (pressure which didn't originate from WINE) and then using that as evidence they are "happy" to release code leaves a slightly sour taste in my mouth.
Regardless of motivation (perhaps the publicity was simply bad timing and they were about to release the code by themselves already. maybe), they have released the code and are in compliance for now. Best to move on at this point I suppose. Yay for all involved?