dominic.wise@ukonline.co.uk wrote:
The application my employer develops is a financial application designed to work on Win 2K and Win XP, but we have a need for a Win32 function that is only supported in XP (TzSpecificLocalTimeToSystemTime). We could write an implementation of this function ourselves for Win 2K but I have noticed that there is a full implementation in Wine.
Is it permissible to use the source for this function in our application?
That function, along with all of Wine, is LGPL'd. Thus to use it in a proprietary app, you just have to put it in its own DLL.
If so, what provisions do we need to make with regard to recognition of Wine and supply of source code to our customers ?
You need to provide the source code for the LGPL'd DLL you ship. Have a look at the terms of the LGPL for details: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.txt
Good luck with your project! - Dan
-- Wine for Windows ISVs: http://kegel.com/wine/isv
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 07:44 -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
dominic.wise@ukonline.co.uk wrote:
The application my employer develops is a financial application designed to work on Win 2K and Win XP, but we have a need for a Win32 function that is only supported in XP (TzSpecificLocalTimeToSystemTime). We could write an implementation of this function ourselves for Win 2K but I have noticed that there is a full implementation in Wine.
Is it permissible to use the source for this function in our application?
That function, along with all of Wine, is LGPL'd. Thus to use it in a proprietary app, you just have to put it in its own DLL.
If so, what provisions do we need to make with regard to recognition of Wine and supply of source code to our customers ?
You need to provide the source code for the LGPL'd DLL you ship. Have a look at the terms of the LGPL for details: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.txt
Good luck with your project!
- Dan
-- Wine for Windows ISVs: http://kegel.com/wine/isv
Exactly what I was hoping for. Many thanks.
Dominic
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Dominic Wise