I asked project davied if they know what use of LGPL code involves, and if the're using wine code, I got the following answer. The impression I have is that they are using major parts of wine. They claim they will fully comply with the LGPL. Here is the full email they sent me.
Good Evening Mr. Smith
Thanks for your email; We appreciate your taking the time to delve into Project David. We feel certain that the closer that you look at the project the more comfortable you will be with it.
Our overall purpose of the project is to encourage consumers to use Linux. Our David Linux/Win Bridge software is simply a product to facilitate the transition to Linux. Our Linux/Win Bridge software is one of multiple components, which comprise our OS platform. In the future we will release another component, which is a set of tools that will encourage developers to write native Linux applications.
The David software is a joint development effort between De La Salle University and SpecOpS Labs. Our Chief Technical Officer is Mr. Peter Valdez. As you may know Mr. Valdez is the founder of Tivoli Systems, which is now a multi billion-dollar flagship product of IBM.
The code for our Windows/Linux Bridge is a hybrid of code, including our own proprietary code, and code from several open source projects. For now we are keeping the exact nature of our code under wraps until our first release of David. We are not using pirated or stolen code from Microsoft or any other source. As stated we are not disclosing the nature of our code or our exact methodology for running Windows Apps on Linux, this is for competitive and other reasons. However, a good deal of our success is attributed to our innovative methodology in assembling together open source code, proprietary code that we have written/purchased, and freeware. In the future, once we disclose how we have done this, then Im sure a number of developers will be kicking themselves in the rear end for not having thought of this themselves.
We do encourage the open source movement and we will comply with the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.
Our website is currently under construction, the data (*especially the technical data) on the website for the most part is not current and in some cases is up to 20+ months old. We are now in the process of doing a major overhaul of the site, which we expect to be completed in a few weeks. *The technical data on our web site concerning David, is outdated and in some cases a competitive smoke screen. We appreciate your comments on the WINE Project and we have no intention of misrepresenting the WINE. Therefore, we are now consulting our English-technical writers and the Filipino - designers/developers of David to ensure that there are no mistakes in the translation. Until we can update the website we have disabled the links to both our technical and competitive data. Hopefully, the development community wont get wrapped around the axle about David, and will withhold judgment until David is released.
So far as our product goes we just completed our prototype, which has been in the making for quite some time. Our first release will be issued before the end of 2004; we expect to start Beta Testing in about 4-5 months. On 22 April we held a press conference at De La Salle University. During the press conference we demonstrated our prototype to more than 30 members of the local and international media. During the demo we ran Macromedia Flash, and MS Office on our Windows/Linux Bridge without a hitch. What you read in the media was primarily the result of the press conference/demo. David is not a hoax or vaporware, but we're not going to make any further claims about David at this point, We prefer to let our software do our talking for us.
FYI: We are now a publicly traded company, our ticker symbol is SPLMF, you can view it on any major financial website such as Merrill Lynch: http://askmerrill.ml.com/markets_chart/1,2260,,00.html?q=SPLMF
Thanks
Customer Service SpecOpS Labs Summit One Office Tower Unit 23-H, 530 Shaw Blvd Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Office 63 2 532-7854 Fax 63 2 532-5875