Licensing Question

[Roderick Colenbrander]

Although Wine is LGPL'ed now, older wine versions (till around march/april 
2002 I think) are X11 licensed. Further there is a "fork" of Wine called 
Rewind which is more up2date than the last X11 edition of Wine. So those 
things can atleast be used by the mingw project.

Relicensing parts of the current Wine is more complicated. I'm not the right 
person to talk about that. Likely a vote for it would be needed since I think 
all people who worked on the headers need to approve it.

Roderick Colenbrander

Op donderdag 31 juli 2003 16:24, schreef Anthony Tuininga:
> The MingW32 project is developing its own set of Windows headers under a
> different license than Wine (which uses LGPL, right?) and I have noticed
> (using both projects) that the Wine headers are more complete in a
> number of areas. I was wondering if it would be acceptable to use the
> Wine headers as a source for filling in gaps in the MinGW32 headers? In
> essence, would the Wine group be willing to allow this cross pollination
> since (clearly) it would be a violation of the licenses as they stand
> today. Any thoughts on this? Or am I treading into a minefield?? :-)