[Wine] Do the developers of wine get royalties or developement support from cross over office and transgaming companies

Helmut Pozimski helmutpozimski at web.de
Sun Feb 19 12:59:25 CST 2006


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Joris Huizer schrieb:
> Tomislav Bobic wrote:
>> I would like to know if wine developers (well team) receives
>> royalties or support from transgaming and cross over office
>> creators.
>>
>
> Some cross over people are actively working on the wine code-base -
>  as far as I know transgaming does not support wine in any way
>
> note that, transgaming is allowed to do this by the LGPL licence;
> it's not the right way, but... (now it'd be a nightmare to write a
> licence that only allows using/developing/enhancing/... free
> software "the right way" ;-) )
>
> regards,
>
> Joris
>
>
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No, transgaming uses a very old wine-snapshot that stands under a
BSD-license, with the LGPL they would not be able to do that.

regards,

Helmut
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