Plex86 is LGPL.

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Robert Millan wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:05:23PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> >
> > > I don't see why this should be a problem (there's no problem running
> > > Emacs on Microsoft Windows, for example).
> > 
> > But plex86 is a bit different from emacs, plex86 needs to "intergrate"
> > with windows to do its job if I'm right. That means a GPL
> > volitation. I don't have any knowledge about windows, can somebody
> > tell me how the interface works on that platform?
> 
> IIRC there's an vxd driver, but it's distributed separately from Plex86.
> then Plex86 is built on cygwin and works with the kernel stuff.
> 
> How about licensing that vxd separately with LGPL and the rest of
> Plex86 with GPL? There's no problem for a GPL program to interact
> in any way with an LGPLed one. This way Plex86 can be GPL and
> take code from other GPL projects.
> 
> However, since Bochs is also LGPL that makes me think there can be
> something else that disallows using the GPL.
> 
> Maybe because nonfree OSes need to be run inside Plex86? I believe
> that this isn't important, what is forbidden is to link non-GPL
> software with GPLed one.
> 
> -- 
> Robert Millan
> 

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