RE: Need to change the License again for some parts?

> 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?

Since the LGPL explicitly allow sublicensing to GPL I don't
see the point. If you want to use parts of Wine as GPL you
already can.