Comment Re:WINE == DEAD END? (Score 1) 210
WINE is for Wine Is Not Emulator!
Primary goal of wine is not to emulate windows and allow windows binaries to run on unix... Wine is free implementation of Win32 API, i.e. it's aimed at developers porting their apps from Windows. And it works, try Kylix. That's the reason why they've chosen LGPL not GPL. If wine were GPLed proprietar programs couldn't be linked with it.
Primary goal of wine is not to emulate windows and allow windows binaries to run on unix... Wine is free implementation of Win32 API, i.e. it's aimed at developers porting their apps from Windows. And it works, try Kylix. That's the reason why they've chosen LGPL not GPL. If wine were GPLed proprietar programs couldn't be linked with it.
