Henri wrote:
However, what really needs clarification is the copyright status of this.
The web page about the project http://kegel.com/wine/sweng/2009/ makes it clear that the work had to be LGPL, and the students were fine with that. The final presentation about that code, http://kegel.com/wine/sweng/2009/dxdiag_presentation.ppt says "Features: ... Now free and open source Previous implementation was owned by Microsoft Could not ship with Wine" so they understood that they were writing free software that would ship with wine.
The authors, according to that presentation, are Allen Hair, Brian Nguyen, David Woo, David Hwang, Linh Pham, and Edward Chang.
I'm pretty sure it's ok to merge. - Dan