why is Kronenberg's Wine/Mac work blacklisted on winehq?

Emmanuel Maillard mahanuu at free.fr
Fri Jun 26 09:09:09 CDT 2009


Hi,

Darwine tools WineHelper and create_darwine_distrib script are not GPL  
but LGPL.
Don't know for Mike Kronenberg patches or other stuffs, but we never  
change Wine licensing
in Darwine.

Emmanuel

Le 26 juin 09 à 05:19, Dmitry Timoshkov a écrit :

> <Joerg-Cyril.Hoehle at t-systems.com> wrote:
>
>> Yesterday I edited http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX/FAQs to be much less
>> outdated than before and today I found that Dmitry Timoshkov removed
>> all references to Mike Kronenberg's Wine binary distribution at
>> http://www.kronenberg.org/darwine/
>
> The explanation is here:
>
> http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX/FAQs#head-fb45851cc05c63812c5660d1b0216b84a3392a9d
>
> 1. Darwine is a separate project with different licensing terms from  
> Wine (GPL vs. LGPL), 2. it's not clear what kind of patches they  
> apply on top of Wine, 3. the fact that they insist on a different name
>
> And promises to rename the product to Wine and change the licensing
> differences still do remain promises.
>
> -- 
> Dmitry.
>
>




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