It's been quite fascinating watching this discussion; it's nice to see that such issues are covered. It raises two issues for me:
- Where does Lindows fit into all this? Does anyone know
what's happening there?
No idea.
- Is the current wine license as loose as it appears to me?
Probably.
My understanding is that "the license" is the file "LICENSE" at the root of the cvs tree and basically allows anyone to do anything with it provided they keep the license in there (and respect copyright).
Yes.
I keep seeing quotes and things that suggest wine is under GPL, LGPL, BSD etc.; I presume that they are simple ill-informed.
It is under the modified BSD license, ie the BSD license without the advertisment clause, more often called the X11 license.