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How did they make Cider proprietary, when WINE is Gplv2 (as far as I know)?

• TazeTSchnitzel 9y ago
  WINE wasn't originally licensed under the GPL. Because of Cider's predecessor making a commercial fork of WINE, WINE relicensed to GPL to prevent further incorporation of WINE code without releasing source. Thus, Cider is ultimately based on a really old version of WINE. A lot of it will be original code.
  • coldpie 9y ago
    We're LGPL, actually, precisely so commercial software can use Wine to do their ports.
    • TazeTSchnitzel 9y ago
      Ah, I didn't know it was LGPL. Anyway, that's true, but you have to release the source.
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