https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51205
Bug ID: 51205 Summary: A Chinese company namd UOS privatizes wine's code Product: Wine Version: unspecified Hardware: x86-64 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: hillwoodroc@gmail.com Distribution: ---
The Wine releases by LGPL, it does not allowed develper privatizes its code. But a Chinese company UOS (https://www.chinauos.com/) privatizes wine's code for their Linux distribution. According to https://uos.deepin.cn/uos/dists/eagle/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages, they change the wine's license to non-free. I don't know if they got a special official authorization.
package: deepin-wine Version: 2.18-23~rc1 Architecture: all Maintainer: Debian Wine Party pkg-wine-party@lists.alioth.debian.org Installed-Size: 131 Depends: deepin-wine64 (>= 2.18-23~rc1) | deepin-wine32 (>= 2.18-23~rc1), deepin-wine64 (<< 2.18-23~rc1.1~) | deepin-wine32 (<< 2.18-23~rc1.1~) Suggests: deepin-wine-binfmt, dosbox (>= 0.74-4.2~) Built-Using: khronos-api (= 0~svn29735-1.1), unicode-data (= 9.0-1) Multi-Arch: foreign Homepage: http://www.winehq.org/ Priority: optional Section: otherosfs Filename: pool/non-free/d/deepin-wine/deepin-wine_2.18-23~rc1_all.deb Size: 96844 SHA256: d4b3af5f1dded68c6983e7bf1b1cee7bdbe1a2789d318abf623b356c389c4bcd SHA1: ad40fcfd176ebc91422e0d336a5f2a06a3297c68 MD5sum: 2d486b5e05f8636d9fc0e512811aae42 Description: Windows API implementation - standard suite Wine is a free MS-Windows API implementation. This is still a work in progress and many applications may still not work.