![]() ![]() Bottom line is that programmers want to get paid to do what they love and I question your morals in you having a problem doing with what he wants with his code. That’s just your ideology hoping that model would have worked out for him. If Kevin had fully embraced the community and his projects for their own sake, and followed the now-classic “Paid Support, Paid new features” avenue, it seems he might be a big success? Legally, yes it would seem he would need all copyright assignment or agreement from all contributors. Watch latest video on Run Windows 10 in Android 2021 :- Hello everyone in this video I have shown that how How you can run Windows 10 in Android using Bochs. ![]() What exactly wrong with MIT again? It’s more free than LGPL. Yeah, as copyright holder he can do that and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. I don’t know about “the community”, but I think you’re wrong. What does the OSNews community think of this approach? Or are my impressions all wrong? Seven months (and no released plex development) later, he starts asking for donations on Sourceforge, having failed in gaining commercial funding: The legality of that is pretty questionable unless he got formal copyright transfers from all contributors, and ethically it is even more questionable if outsiders spent hours of their lives tracking bugs and improvements with the implicit assumption that it was for a community project. Sounds like he wants to close-source it again and go commercial. Then he unilaterally announces that he is changing the plex86 license from LGPL to MIT because of “commercial and non-commerical inputs”. Bochs can be compiled and used in a variety of modes, some which are still in development. Bochs was written by Kevin Lawton and is currently maintained by this project. Nothing wrong with an alternative OSS funding model, but something about that approach doesn’t exhibit a real Open Source spirit. Bochs is capable of running most Operating Systems inside the emulation including Linux, DOS, Windows® 95/98 and Windows® NT/2000/XP or Windows Vista. First he releases Bochs, but tells people they have to pay up if they want it released under an Open Source license. Kevin Lawton never seemed like a real Open Source advocate to me. Is Bochs back in active development? Has much happened since Kevin Lawton left to start plex86? The “Bochs 2.2.1” link in the article is broken. ![]()
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