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[โ€“] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It made them nervous because someone might put parts of the original source into Wine. You can't do that in a rewrite in a different language, it doesn't even make sense. The thing the people in this screenshot are gloating about isn't even relevant to this license.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

It made them nervous for the same reason emulator devs don't touch leaks with a ten foot pole, giving the megacorp any reason to argue your clean house reimplantation is anything but clean is just asking for trouble.