Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 1st Jul 2007 10:30 UTC
SWSoft, the company behind Parallels Desktop for Mac, is possibly violating the LGPL license by using LGPL libraries from the WINE project without providing access to the source code. The WINE project first discovered the violation early this June, and after several failed attempts at getting the source code to the libraries, they set up a wiki page to keep track of the ongoing violation. The WINE project wants to resolve the issue "without starting legal action". Thanks to MacWereld for pointing this out [Dutch].
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2007-02-17
If they made no changes to Wine source, then Parallels should have no problem publishing the source code they used, since Wine is already public.
If Parallels did make some changes to the Wine source, it shouldn't be too onerous to release the changes they made to Wine source code. It can't be too many.
Under no circumstance do Parallels have to release all their source code ... just the Wine stuff which was under the LGPL is affected here.