Parallels using WINE? Possible liscensing issues...

Jun 8, 2007, 08:16 PM #1
unused_user_name Senior Member Join: Jun 2006 Posts: 501	Parallels using WINE? Possible liscensing issues... Hello, I came across a bunch of WINE dll's when looking through my Windows directory today... Short to say I was a bit surprised. Some questions: Have you modified the WINE source in integrating it into Parallels? WINE is LGPL, so you only have to release your source if you changed WINE... I'm going to take a few MD5s of the WINE dlls to see if they match what I can get from winehq. __________________ MacBookPro C2D 2.4Ghz, 4gb RAM, 200gb Disk, 1tb USB2 Disk 2x Win XP Pro VM, 512mb RAM, 30gb Disk Win 2k VM, 265 mb RAM, 20 gb Disk Fedora 7 VM, 512mb RAM, 20gb Disk Red Hat Enterprise Linux (64 bit) VM, 512mb RAM, 20gb Disk Minix VM, 128mb RAM, 200mb Disk

Jun 8, 2007, 08:16 PM

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Parallels using WINE? Possible liscensing issues...

Hello,

I came across a bunch of WINE dll's when looking through my Windows directory today... Short to say I was a bit surprised.

Some questions: Have you modified the WINE source in integrating it into Parallels? WINE is LGPL, so you only have to release your source if you changed WINE...

I'm going to take a few MD5s of the WINE dlls to see if they match what I can get from winehq.

__________________
MacBookPro C2D 2.4Ghz, 4gb RAM, 200gb Disk, 1tb USB2 Disk
2x Win XP Pro VM, 512mb RAM, 30gb Disk
Win 2k VM, 265 mb RAM, 20 gb Disk
Fedora 7 VM, 512mb RAM, 20gb Disk
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (64 bit) VM, 512mb RAM, 20gb Disk
Minix VM, 128mb RAM, 200mb Disk

Jun 8, 2007, 08:49 PM #2
Andrew @ Parallels Parallels Team Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,557	Correct. In current implementation Parallels uses modified Wine code under LGPL license. LGPL license is not violated because Wine is absolutely separate binary (number of DLLs) installed in guest Windows and doesn't linked to any of Parallels code. It used for DirectX to OpenGL translation. Modified Wine code is freely available by request from Parallels as any other 3-rd party code described here - http://www.parallels.com/en/licensing/ . It will be added to this section in 1-2 days once we prepare its source code package for delivery. __________________ Best Regards, Andrew @ Parallels

Jun 8, 2007, 08:49 PM

Andrew @ Parallels
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Correct. In current implementation Parallels uses modified Wine code under LGPL license. LGPL license is not violated because Wine is absolutely separate binary (number of DLLs) installed in guest Windows and doesn't linked to any of Parallels code. It used for DirectX to OpenGL translation.

Modified Wine code is freely available by request from Parallels as any other 3-rd party code described here - http://www.parallels.com/en/licensing/ . It will be added to this section in 1-2 days once we prepare its source code package for delivery.

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Andrew @ Parallels

Jun 8, 2007, 09:00 PM #3
unused_user_name Senior Member Join: Jun 2006 Posts: 501	Ahhh. Thanks for clearing that up. I'll email in asking for the modifications after this support storm for 3.0 ends. __________________ MacBookPro C2D 2.4Ghz, 4gb RAM, 200gb Disk, 1tb USB2 Disk 2x Win XP Pro VM, 512mb RAM, 30gb Disk Win 2k VM, 265 mb RAM, 20 gb Disk Fedora 7 VM, 512mb RAM, 20gb Disk Red Hat Enterprise Linux (64 bit) VM, 512mb RAM, 20gb Disk Minix VM, 128mb RAM, 200mb Disk

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