Editing CodeWeavers (section)

{{Short description|American software company}}
{{Infobox company
| name = CodeWeavers
| logo = CodeWeavers-logo-2020.png
| logo_size = 200px
| type = [[Private company|Private]]
| key_people = {{plainlist|
* Jeremy White (Founder and Chairman of the Board)
* [[Alexandre Julliard]] (CTO)
* James Ramey (CEO)}}
| industry = [[Computer software]]
| products = {{flatlist|
* [[CrossOver Mac]]
* [[CrossOver Linux]]
* [[Proton (software)|Proton]]
* PortJump
* ExecMode}}
| revenue = 
| operating_income = 
| net_income = 
| num_employees = 45
| parent = 
| subsid = 
| footnotes = 
| foundation = {{start date and age|1996}}
| location = [[Saint Paul, Minnesota]], [[United States]]
| homepage = {{URL|https://www.codeweavers.com}}
}}

'''CodeWeavers''' is a [[software company]] that focuses on [[Wine (software)|Wine]] development and sells a [[proprietary software|proprietary]] version of Wine called [[CrossOver]] for running [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] [[application software|applications]] on [[macOS]], [[ChromeOS]] and [[Linux]]. The company was founded in 1996 as a consultancy, eventually moving entirely over to Wine development and support.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CodeWeavers and CrossOver: An Introduction and Beginnings {{!}} CodeWeavers Blog |url=https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/jwhite/2008/2/15/codeweavers-and-crossover-an-introduction-and-beginnings |access-date=2023-06-09 |website=CodeWeavers |language=en}}</ref>

CodeWeavers is the principal corporate sponsor of the [[Wine (software)|Wine project]], hosts Wine's website, helps sponsor the Wine conference, employs many Wine developers, and is a major code contributor to Wine. CodeWeavers claims that two-thirds of all commits to Wine come from their developers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Everything We Do at CodeWeavers Revolves Around the Wine Project |url=https://www.codeweavers.com/wine |access-date=2023-06-09 |website=CodeWeavers |language=en}}</ref> The company also employs Wine's primary maintainer, [[Alexandre Julliard]], as its CTO. While CodeWeavers main commercial interest in Wine is its use in the Crossover product, they also encourage enhancements to Wine that sometimes compete with Crossover.

CodeWeavers also employs some developers of '''wine-mono''', an open-source reimplementation of [[.NET Framework|Microsoft .NET framework]] (4.x and earlier) which is intended as a replacement for the .NET Framework in Wine.  Wine-mono is a branch of [[Mono (software)| Mono]] which has been tailored to work with Wine.

Since 2016, CodeWeavers has been contracted to work with [[Valve Corporation|Valve]] on [[Proton (software)|Proton]], a compatibility layer for running Windows games through [[Steam (service)|Steam]] on Linux.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Evangelho |first=Jason |title=Exclusive: Codeweavers Talks About Valve Partnership, Windows And The Future Of Gaming On Linux |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/09/19/fine-wine-an-interview-with-codeweavers-about-valve-windows-and-the-future-of-gaming-on-linux/ |access-date=2023-06-09 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref>

CodeWeavers is a founding member of the Desktop Linux Consortium.

CodeWeavers' products and services include '''CrossOver, PortJump,''' and '''ExecMode'''. 

In April 2023, CodeWeavers transitioned to an [[employee ownership trust]]. Jeremy White stepped down as CEO and company president James Ramey assumed the role.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-17 |title=CodeWeavers Transitions to Employee Ownership Trust; Open Source Software Company Is One of First U.S. Software Companies to Adopt Novel Ownership Structure |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230517005368/en/CodeWeavers-Transitions-to-Employee-Ownership-Trust-Open-Source-Software-Company-Is-One-of-First-U.S.-Software-Companies-to-Adopt-Novel-Ownership-Structure |access-date=2023-06-09 |website=www.businesswire.com |language=en}}</ref>