Editing Cedega (software) (section)

==Licenses==
Though Cedega was mainly [[proprietary software]], TransGaming did make part of the source publicly available via [[Concurrent Versions System|CVS]], under a mix of licenses.<ref name="TG Licenses">{{cite web | url=http://www.transgaming.com/license.php?source=1 | title=Licenses | publisher=TransGaming | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051212101651/http://www.transgaming.com/license.php?source=1 | archivedate=December 12, 2005 | accessdate=September 8, 2015}}</ref> Though this was mainly done to allow a means for the public to view and submit fixes to the code, it was also frequently used as a means to obtain a quasi-demonstration version of Cedega. TransGaming released a proper demo of Cedega because of complaints of the difficulty of building a usable version of the program from the public CVS, as well as its outdated nature. The demo released by Cedega gave users a 14-day trial of a reasonably current version of the product with a watermark of the Cedega logo which faded from almost transparent to fully opaque every few seconds. This demo was removed without comment.

While the licenses under which the code was released do permit non-commercial redistribution of precompiled public-CVS versions of the software, TransGaming strongly discouraged this, openly warning that the license would be changed if they felt that abuse was occurring or otherwise threatened. TransGaming similarly discouraged source-based distributions like [[Gentoo Linux]] from creating automated tools to let people build their own version of Cedega from the public CVS.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030804-newsletter.xml#doc_chap1_sect4 | publisher = Gentoo | title = Newsletter notice about removal of Cedega CVS | access-date = 2007-01-09 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061022045029/http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030804-newsletter.xml#doc_chap1_sect4 | archive-date = 2006-10-22 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

The Wine project originally released Wine under the same [[MIT License]] as the X Window System, but owing to concern about [[proprietary software|proprietary]] versions of Wine not contributing their changes back to the core project,<ref>{{cite web
 | url=https://winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2002-February/003912.html
 | title=Wine license change
 | first=Jeremy | last=White
 | date=6 February 2002
 | accessdate=27 April 2010
}}</ref> work as of March 2002 has used the LGPL for its licensing.<ref>{{cite web
 | url=https://winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2002-February/004487.html
 | title=License change vote results
 | author=Alexandre Julliard
 | date=18 February 2002
 | accessdate=27 April 2010
}}</ref>