[Wine] Re: Is Wine taking my donations and giving them to CrossOver?

[jeffz]

muncrief wrote:
> Well, I think I have a clearer picture of what is going on now.
> 
> And I thank all of you for your responses.
> 
> It appears that unfortunately there weren't enough open source software users such as myself who actually donate what they can so that Wine could viably exist, so Wine essentially became an R&D resource for CodeWeavers.
> 


Just as it's a R&D resource for anyone else, you can make a product using wine and sell it if you feel like it.  That's how it's licensed, as free software.


muncrief wrote:
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> I have no problem with that.
> 
> The problem I have is that, of course, Wine is not an open source project. And whether "official" or not, must offer something less than the company that employs them.
> 


Wine is an open source project, it's licensed under the LGPL.


muncrief wrote:
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> But Wine's home page presents you as just that, and only that. You are indeed misrepresenting yourselves.
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> And my original question was never answered.
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> Was the money I donated to a supposed open source project given to a for profit company?


Someone else might answer that, but I'm fairly sure vitamin is right.