[Bug 51205] New: A Chinese company namd UOS privatizes wine's code

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

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: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      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 
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.

[Bug 51205] A Chinese company named UOS privatizes wine's code

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51205

hillwood  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|A Chinese company namd UOS  |A Chinese company named UOS
                   |privatizes wine's code      |privatizes wine's code

[Bug 51205] A Chinese company named UOS privatizes wine's code

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51205

Olivier F. R. Dierick  changed:

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         Resolution|---                         |INVALID
                 CC|                            |[e-mail]
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED

--- Comment #1 from Olivier F. R. Dierick  ---
Hello,

Please keep legal questions off bugzilla.

You should get that to the forums, but I fail to see any LGPL violation from
the few informations provided.

Marking invalid.

Regards.

[Bug 51205] A Chinese company named UOS privatizes wine's code

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51205

Ken Sharp  changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #2 from Ken Sharp  ---
Closing bugs marked as invalid