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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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RE[3]: and you thought the GPL was hard to follow

by deanlinkous on Sun 1st Jul 2007 15:23 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: and you thought the GPL was hard to follow"

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Since Parallels is closed source then most likely this will need to be handled through the court system to have an independent review of each projects code. Even though I'm a supporter of the Linux movement I can see the reasoning why a closed source developer would be cautious showing an open source developer their code.

Parallels has stated that they use LGPL software and have modified it so what review is needed????

Edited 2007-07-01 15:24

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