wine users - Feb 2006 - Do the developers of wine get royalties or developement support from cross over office and transgaming companies

I would like to know if wine developers (well team) receives royalties
or support from transgaming and cross over office creators.

Because I am disgusted that the Wine creators spent so much time and
effort and hard work into their creation with good intension's whilst
transgaming and cross over office developers use there system to profit
on things that are a necessity rather than just being a nice unnecessary
feature to the OS.

If this is the case and the creators of wine are not offered anything by
these two companies then the two companies really should have no right
developing out of date software on the hard working backs of the wine
creators and also should be restricted from using the wine creators
software to run there software

I see this as a great injustice if it is the case.

Thank you, please respond with your answers to my question.

Tomislav Bobic wrote:
> I would like to know if wine developers (well team) receives royalties
> or support from transgaming and cross over office creators.
> 
Some cross over people are actively working on the wine code-base - as 
far as I know transgaming does not support wine in any way

note that, transgaming is allowed to do this by the LGPL licence; it's 
not the right way, but... (now it'd be a nightmare to write a licence 
that only allows using/developing/enhancing/... free software "the right 
way" ;-) )

regards,

Joris

Joris Huizer wrote:
> Tomislav Bobic wrote:
>> I would like to know if wine developers (well team) receives royalties
>> or support from transgaming and cross over office creators.
>>
> 
> Some cross over people are actively working on the wine code-base - as 
> far as I know transgaming does not support wine in any way
> 
Actually a bit more than some. I would say that more than half of the 
development is done by Crossover people. For example, just browse 
through the authors of the CVS commits for this month:

http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-cvs/2006-February/subject.html

Without Codeweavers (the company behind Crossover) Wine would be nowhere 
near where it is today.

Tomislav Bobic wrote:
> I would like to know if wine developers (well team) receives royalties
> or support from transgaming and cross over office creators.
Not from transgaming.  They're off in their own world.

The sales of Codeweavers Crossover Office, on the
other hand, directly pays for Wine development.
Jeremy White, the CEO of Codeweavers, is a big
LGPL fan, and he's poured lots of effort into
the LGPL wine tree.

If you want to get mad at somebody, try SpecOps Labs
and their David ripoff of Wine, and TurboLinux for
including David in their distro.  (Anyone gotten a
copy of the David sources yet?)
See http://www.winehq.com/?issue=302 for more info.
- Dan

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