muncrief wrote: > Well, I think I have a clearer picture of what is going on now. > > And I thank all of you for your responses. > > It appears that unfortunately there weren't enough open source software users such as myself who actually donate what they can so that Wine could viably exist, so Wine essentially became an R&D resource for CodeWeavers. > Just as it's a R&D resource for anyone else, you can make a product using wine and sell it if you feel like it. That's how it's licensed, as free software. muncrief wrote: > > I have no problem with that. > > The problem I have is that, of course, Wine is not an open source project. And whether "official" or not, must offer something less than the company that employs them. > Wine is an open source project, it's licensed under the LGPL. muncrief wrote: > > But Wine's home page presents you as just that, and only that. You are indeed misrepresenting yourselves. > > And my original question was never answered. > > Was the money I donated to a supposed open source project given to a for profit company? Someone else might answer that, but I'm fairly sure vitamin is right.
