While I am thinking about this, there are some interesting things in the LGPL. One of these is that you can modify the LGPL library to work with your code. The catch is that you have to release source to the modifications and that the modifications must not require that your proprietary component be included. The text of the license mentions that if you modify a function that computes square roots to hook into your proprietary components that the function must still compute square roots. But in Wine's case, many functions don't do what they are supposed to do, or they do what they are supposed to do but that's not what actually needs to be done.
That is a very intresting point. Thank you for bring it to my attention. I didn't realize that.
Hmm. I will have to think about it what this means, if it indeed means something.
This stuck out like a sore thumb to me, but maybe it's not such a big deal.
Can you perhaps say exactly what bothered you?
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Patrik Stridvall