RE: [ros-dev] RE: Collection of wine tools on windows

[Casper Hornstrup]

>   -----Original Message-----
>  From: ros-dev-bounces(a)reactos.com 
>  [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Steven Edwards
>  Sent: 21. februar 2005 21:52
>  To: ReactOS Development List; ivanleo(a)gmail.com; wine-devel(a)winehq.com
>  Cc: ros-dev(a)reactos.com
>  Subject: Re: [ros-dev] RE: Collection of wine tools on windows
>  
>  Hi,
>  
>  --- Casper Hornstrup <ch(a)csh-consult.dk> wrote:
> >   I might vote for using WINE headers in ReactOS if
> > WINE  
>  relicensed its 
> >   headers to a w32api or BSD like license that will
> > allow use in a 
> >  non-free application. What I would like to see most though,  
>  is for all 
> >   three projects to share w32api. 
>  
>  What do you mean? The headers are LGPL so you can use them in 
>  a non-free application.
>  
>  Thanks
>  Steven 
Yes, but then you need to publish the sources for the non-free application
under the LGPL. When using headers to build your application, you create a
derived work of those headers.

http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/lgpl.html

"A "work based on the Library" means either the Library or any derivative
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containing the Library or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications and/or
translated straightforwardly into another
language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in the term
"modification".)"

"4. You may copy and distribute the Library (or a portion or derivative of it, under
Section 2) in object code or executable form
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customarily used for software interchange."

Casper