Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] w32api, wine and the LGPL

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting Chris Sutcliffe <ir0...@gm...>:

>> Patches from wine are not acceptable.  We cannot accept patches with
>> GPL licenses.
>
> Wine is licensed under the LGPL (http://www.winehq.org/site/license),
> but what's not clear to me is how the LGPL relates to Public Domain
> software.  Unfortunately the GNU site doesn't explicitly details the
> compatibilities between licenses other than saying PD software is
> compatible with the GPL (and LGPL I would assume).  It doesn't state
> if the LGPL license is compatible with the PD license.
>

Public Domain can be relicensed at will; all copyright has been 
released and removed.  Therefore PD->GPL isn't a problem and the code 
is now GPL in the context of the source the PD was included within.  
But GPL->PD then PD becomes GPL because of the GPL license ``copyleft'' 
statements.

Earnie