On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 05:19:23PM +0200, Marc Leeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > He also mentioned the possibility to change the license to explicitly > > > forbid the distribution of binaries. > > > > How can they do that? Isn't WINE GPL? > > Ok, I'm moving onto thin ice here, since I do not know the knitty gritty > of licensing. > > Wine used to be a X11 license (I think), which is not that restrictive > on releasing code and linking and compiling with proprietary software. > Under influence of Codeweavers, the license was changed to LGPL. (Though > cheer the decision, I do not really know why).
Ah, okay, I had confused Codeweavers (the people working on the LGPL branch) with Transgaming (the people working on the X11 branch) Daniel -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------\ | Fate always wins... | | at least, when people stick to the rules. | | -- Terry Pratchett, _Interesting Times_ | \---------------------- A duck! -- http://www.python.org ---------------------/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
