Licensing question

2006-01-04 Thread Dominic Wise
I have a question regarding the use of portions of Wine in a commercial application. Sorry if this is not the right place to post but I am not sure who I can directly address this to. The application my employer develops is a financial application designed to work on Win 2K and Win XP, but we

re: Licensing question

2006-01-04 Thread Dan Kegel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The application my employer develops is a financial application designed to work on Win 2K and Win XP, but we have a need for a Win32 function that is only supported in XP (TzSpecificLocalTimeToSystemTime). We could write an implementation of this function ourselves

Re: Licensing question

2006-01-04 Thread Andreas Mohr
Hi, On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 03:29:22PM +, Dominic Wise wrote: I have a question regarding the use of portions of Wine in a commercial application. Sorry if this is not the right place to post but I am not sure who I can directly address this to. np (I don't think wine-users would be an

re: Licensing question

2006-01-04 Thread Dominic Wise
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 07:44 -0800, Dan Kegel wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The application my employer develops is a financial application designed to work on Win 2K and Win XP, but we have a need for a Win32 function that is only supported in XP (TzSpecificLocalTimeToSystemTime). We

Re: Licensing question

2006-01-04 Thread Dominic Wise
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 17:00 +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 03:29:22PM +, Dominic Wise wrote: I have a question regarding the use of portions of Wine in a commercial application. Sorry if this is not the right place to post but I am not sure who I can directly

Re: Licensing question

2006-01-04 Thread Daniel Remenak
Dan Kegel is correct. You can create a DLL containing LGPL code and load it from a proprietary application, as long as the source to the DLL is distributed. From the LGPL Preamble: This license, the GNU Lesser General Public License, applies to certain designated libraries, and is quite

Re: Licensing question

2006-01-04 Thread Dominic Wise
Thanks for identifying the relevant part of the license, and for clarifying the situation wrt separate DLLs. Very helpful. I'll give the rest of the license a good read for future reference. Dominic On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 09:53 -0800, Daniel Remenak wrote: Dan Kegel is correct. You can create a

Re: Licensing question

2006-01-04 Thread Troy Rollo
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 04:28, Dominic Wise wrote: Hmmm... I thought from Dan Kegel's earlier response that it would be OK to put the function into a separate library (DLL) and release this library under a separate license to the rest of the application. That is correct, as long as you provide

Re: Licensing question

2006-01-04 Thread Tom Spear (aka Dustin Navea)
Dominic Wise wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 17:00 +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 03:29:22PM +, Dominic Wise wrote: I have a question regarding the use of portions of Wine in a commercial application. Sorry if this is not the right place to post but I am not