On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:05:23PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > I don't see why this should be a problem (there's no problem running > > Emacs on Microsoft Windows, for example). > > But plex86 is a bit different from emacs, plex86 needs to "intergrate" > with windows to do its job if I'm right. That means a GPL > volitation. I don't have any knowledge about windows, can somebody > tell me how the interface works on that platform?
IIRC there's an vxd driver, but it's distributed separately from Plex86. then Plex86 is built on cygwin and works with the kernel stuff. How about licensing that vxd separately with LGPL and the rest of Plex86 with GPL? There's no problem for a GPL program to interact in any way with an LGPLed one. This way Plex86 can be GPL and take code from other GPL projects. However, since Bochs is also LGPL that makes me think there can be something else that disallows using the GPL. Maybe because nonfree OSes need to be run inside Plex86? I believe that this isn't important, what is forbidden is to link non-GPL software with GPLed one. -- Robert Millan
