can Winelib be used with commercial applications?

Question

这是我可以问这个问题的唯一地方，因为WineHQ论坛由于某种原因而被锁定...所以请告诉我我是否可以将Winelib与商业应用程序静态链接起来 ，以及它的使用条款是什么-应该在本文档中得到认可文档，应用程序的包装盒等？

Answer 1

A couple of points:

• You can't really link with Winelib statically. I mean - you probably can, but it you still need almost all of Wine's infrastructure, anyway. Winelib is 95% of Wine, basically everything minus the PE-Loader (the code that can read Windows executables).

• Wine is licensed LGPL. IANAL, but that means you can distribute Wine with your commercial app without being forced to open-source your own code. It works as follows: When you combine your app with Wine you create a derived work (or your app and of Wine). The GPL requires a derived work of free software to be free software as well, the LGPL does not. Still, if you modify Wine-code to make it work with your app, you need to make the modified Wine source available to the people you distribute your product to. The license lists several options on how to comply with the source code requirement.

• You need to include a notice to the LGPL wherever your app provides its own licensing information. Read the LGPL for the details.