Re: PathSearchAndQualify patch not applied?

Keef Aragon wrote:

> First off, you can't legally top TG from changing anything under the 
> license Cedega is released under.  Also I don't think you realize that 
> Cedega is an open source *free* product.  TG does not charge for it... 
> they are not allowed to as it is a derivitave work of the original 
> wine project.  They are allowed to charge for the distribution 
> medium... That is why you *subscribe* to TG.  You are paying for the 
> medium, not the software itself.

That is not the case.  Cedega is a proprietary product, which includes a 
mixture of code under a number of different licenses, each of which 
needs to be followed by both TransGaming as well as by subscribers and 
anyone making use of our CVS tree.

Every piece of code that TransGaming has written for Cedega is under our 
copyright, which allows us to set the license for its inclusion or 
distribution elsewhere.  We provide that code under a number of 
different licenses depending on the circumstances.  Some has been 
provided to the WineHQ and ReWind projects under both the previous 
X11-style Wine license and the LGPL.  Other code is available via our 
CVS tree under the AFPL, which restricts commercial redistribution.  
Still more code is available in our downloadable packaged products, 
available only to subscribers, and under even more restricted terms and 
without source code. 

Only a very very small subset (7 out of 152 dlls) of the code in Cedega 
is under the LGPL.  Each of these subcomponents is its own seperate 
library, which is interchangable with the Microsoft or other proprietary 
version of the given interface.  For this subset, we are required to 
provide source code to people who we sell binaries to.  There is no 
restriction on our ability to charge for them whatsoever.

The X11-style license that the old Wine code was under and that the 
ReWind code is under makes no similar restrictions.  We can "deal in the 
Software without restriction", according to that license.

Since we do want the ability to make derivative works of the code, we 
will only take patches from developers who explicitly license their 
patches under the X11-style license (or who assign their copyright to us 
in the case of a commercial transaction).  If a developer is not willing 
to do that, we simply will not include the patch in any code we 
redistribute.  If a change is required to fix a significant problem and 
the author is not willing to license it to us under the X11 license we 
have to provide an independant fix ourselves.

We've done this several times in the past, most recently and 
significantly with the NPTL changes.  In that case we also offered that 
work under the X11 license to ReWind, and we exchanged ideas with the 
WineHQ developers (though while they were able to use our X11 licensed 
code if they had wanted, we were not able to use their LGPLed code).

Take care,
  -Gav

-- 
Gavriel State 
Co-CEO & CTO
TransGaming Technologies Inc.
[email protected]
http://www.transgaming.com

Let the games begin!