Please move this thread to wine-license!
Thank you very much!
Jörg
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 02:25:18PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 03:41 PM 2/25/2002, Nick Temple wrote:
>
> >I am working on an article about how to load Windows DLL's under Linux. This
>system is for stand-alone Linux applications that only need to use some of the logic
>in a single Windows DLL, not a full WINE implementation.
> >
> >The code has been "borrowed" and tweaked from the avifile distribution (which is
>GPL'd), originally borrowed from WINE (BSD license), and will be re-released under
>the GPL or LGPL once the article is published.
>
> It is not legal to do this. You can't change the license on existing code.
> If it was originally licensed under the WINE X11 license, you cannot legally
> change that. Which is a good thing. No one should be allowed to stamp a
> virulent license on someone else's work without permission.
>
> --Brett Glass
>
>
--
Joerg Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I found out that "pro" means "instead of" (as in proconsul). Now I know
what proactive means.
