Need to change the License again for some parts?
Joerg Mayer <[email protected]>
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On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 05:36:32PM +0200, Ove Kaaven wrote:
> > Those closed-sourced drivers are considered 'part of the operating
> > system', so making a port.c depend on them to access proprietory OS
> > and System components is totally allowed.
>
> The LGPL makes no special exemption for 'part of the operating system'.
> Only the GPL does (the reasons for this was discussed earlier), but that
> exemption only allows linking against such libraries, not embedding NDA-ed
> code straight into Wine, which I was talking about. As mentioned before, I
> agree that this hardly matters in most "practical" cases, but there are
> always the cases neither you nor I could anticipate.
I think Ove is right with the GPL - LGPL difference here. Maybe changing
the kernel, wineserver and other related stuff to GPL would make sense.
Anyone who knows the difference a bit better?
ciao
Jörg
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