Bug#147303: ITP: winex -- A DESCRIPTION
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 05:19:23PM +0200, Marc Leeman <marc.leeman@ieee.org> was heard to say:
> > > He also mentioned the possibility to change the license to explicitly
> > > forbid the distribution of binaries.
> >
> > How can they do that? Isn't WINE GPL?
>
> Ok, I'm moving onto thin ice here, since I do not know the knitty gritty
> of licensing.
>
> Wine used to be a X11 license (I think), which is not that restrictive
> on releasing code and linking and compiling with proprietary software.
> Under influence of Codeweavers, the license was changed to LGPL. (Though
> cheer the decision, I do not really know why).
Ah, okay, I had confused Codeweavers (the people working on the LGPL
branch) with Transgaming (the people working on the X11 branch)
Daniel
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