License query

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.com
Sat Oct 26 20:56:59 CDT 2002


Matthew Bloch <matthew at bytemark.co.uk> writes:

> I'm porting a closed-source game to Linux, and as a stop-gap I'd like to get a 
> version out using WINE until I can rewrite the Direct(Sound|Draw|3D) backends 
> with SDL.  After reading this post:
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200205/msg02823.html
> 
> and then downloading the source from the winehq.com cvs, I'm confused as to my 
> options.  The LICENSE file implies that the ddraw DLL is transgaming's IP but 
> the files themselves have LGPL declarations at the top.

Everything in the winehq.com tree is under LGPL, and there is nothing
in the LICENSE file about ddraw, it looks like you are confusing it
with the one from the Transgaming tree. So if you want only LGPL code,
make sure you only check things out from winehq.com.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com



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