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Subject: Re: Artilcle - loading Windows DLL's under Linux
From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer () loplof ! de>
Date: 2002-02-26 13:14:23
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Please move this thread to wine-license!
Thank you very much!
Jörg
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 02:25:18PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 03:41 PM 2/25/2002, Nick Temple wrote:
>
> > I am working on an article about how to load Windows DLL's under Linux. This \
> > system is for stand-alone Linux applications that only need to use some of the \
> > logic in a single Windows DLL, not a full WINE implementation.
> > The code has been "borrowed" and tweaked from the avifile distribution (which is \
> > GPL'd), originally borrowed from WINE (BSD license), and will be re-released \
> > under the GPL or LGPL once the article is published.
>
> It is not legal to do this. You can't change the license on existing code.
> If it was originally licensed under the WINE X11 license, you cannot legally
> change that. Which is a good thing. No one should be allowed to stamp a
> virulent license on someone else's work without permission.
>
> --Brett Glass
>
>
--
Joerg Mayer <jmayer@loplof.de>
I found out that "pro" means "instead of" (as in proconsul). Now I know
what proactive means.
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