Wine license change

[Chris Green]

Joerg wrote:
> OK, when the last discussion was going on, I started out with the
opinion
> that the change would be good and changed it to not so good, because
if
> proprietary stuff that *is* part of the windows kernel (or drivers)
needs
> to be implemented, this can't be done with an LGPLed wine. My final
idea
> (which I never mailed) was, that maybe a X11-licensed kernel
(including
> wineserver and driver emulation) and LGPLed dlls for the rest would be
> the best solution.


I'm not sure why a re-implementation of proprietary stuff can't be done
with an LGPLed Wine. If that was the case, wouldn't it be next to
impossible for just about any LGPLed product to mimic the behaviour of a
proprietary application? (eg KDevelop vs MSVC?) 

Regards
Chris Green
Massey-Green Software Labs