[ros-dev] RE: Collection of wine tools on windows

[Casper Hornstrup]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ros-dev-bounces at reactos.com 
> [mailto:ros-dev-bounces at reactos.com] On Behalf Of Steven Edwards
> Sent: 21. februar 2005 21:52
> To: ReactOS Development List; ivanleo at gmail.com; wine-devel at winehq.com
> Cc: ros-dev at reactos.com
> Subject: Re: [ros-dev] RE: Collection of wine tools on windows
> 
> Hi,
> 
> --- Casper Hornstrup <ch at csh-consult.dk> wrote:
> > I might vote for using WINE headers in ReactOS if WINE 
> relicensed its 
> > headers to a w32api or BSD like license that will allow use in a 
> > non-free application. What I would like to see most though, 
> is for all 
> > three projects to share w32api.
> 
> What do you mean? The headers are LGPL so you can use them in 
> a non-free application.
> 
> Thanks
> Steven

Yes, but then you need to publish the sources for the non-free application
under the LGPL. When using headers to build your application, you create a
derived work of those headers.

http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/lgpl.html

"A "work based on the Library" means either the Library or any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a work
containing the Library or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated straightforwardly into another
language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in the term "modification".)"

"4. You may copy and distribute the Library (or a portion or derivative of it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form
under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source
code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange."

Casper