Licensing Question

2003-07-31 Thread Anthony Tuininga
The MingW32 project is developing its own set of Windows headers under a different license than Wine (which uses LGPL, right?) and I have noticed (using both projects) that the Wine headers are more complete in a number of areas. I was wondering if it would be acceptable to use the Wine headers as

Cabinet problems in latest wine cvs

2003-07-31 Thread Boris
When attempting to install Office 2000 under the latest wine from cvs, It stops half way through the installation with the following error. err:cabinet:FDICopy FDIIsCabinet failed. Any ideas?

Re: Cabinet problems in latest wine cvs

2003-07-31 Thread Gregory M. Turner
On Thursday 31 July 2003 02:57 pm, Boris wrote: When attempting to install Office 2000 under the latest wine from cvs, It stops half way through the installation with the following error. err:cabinet:FDICopy FDIIsCabinet failed. Any ideas? This rollup of the recent cabinet patches should fix

Re: Licensing Question

2003-07-31 Thread Roderick Colenbrander
Although Wine is LGPL'ed now, older wine versions (till around march/april 2002 I think) are X11 licensed. Further there is a fork of Wine called Rewind which is more up2date than the last X11 edition of Wine. So those things can atleast be used by the mingw project. Relicensing parts of the

Re: Licensing Question

2003-07-31 Thread Vincent BĂ©ron
Le jeu 31/07/2003 13:52, Roderick Colenbrander a crit : Although Wine is LGPL'ed now, older wine versions (till around march/april 2002 I think) are X11 licensed. Further there is a fork of Wine called Rewind which is more up2date than the last X11 edition of Wine. So those things can

Re: Licensing Question

2003-07-31 Thread Joerg Mayer
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 07:52:40PM +0200, Roderick Colenbrander wrote: Likely a vote for it would be needed since I think all people who worked on the headers need to approve it. Well, as you mention correctly in the second part: Everyone who submitted patches under a LGPL license only *must*

Re: Licensing Question

2003-07-31 Thread Steven Edwards
The interfaces are public information and can be gotten from any number of means. I dont know why we even have license information in the headers as it has caused confusion from day 1 the LGPL statment was added. If you are still worried about using the WINE headers to fix Mingw (It needs it)