Editing Cedega (software) (section)

==Controversy==
TransGaming's business practice of benefiting financially from the Wine project, without contributing anything back to it drew criticism. TransGaming obtained the source to the original Wine project when it was under the [[MIT License]] and this license placed no requirements on how TransGaming published the software. TransGaming decided to release their version as proprietary software.<ref>[http://www.maximumpc.com/article/howtos/how_run_windows_games_linux How to run Windows games on Linux] - [[Maximum PC]]</ref>  

Cedega included licensed support for several types of CD-based copy protection (notably SecuROM and SafeDisc), the code for which TransGaming said they were under contract not to disclose. They had initially pledged to release their code if they reached 20,000 subscribers, but this never actually happened.<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011225200125/http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/10/22/0051250|url=http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/10/22/0051250|title=TransGaming, Mandrake team up to bring PC games directly to Linux|date=2001-10-22|access-date=2023-05-30|archive-date=2001-12-25|first=Grant|last=Gross|website=NewsForge}}</ref>

In 2002, the Wine project changed its license to the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). This means that anyone who publishes a modified version of Wine after the license change must publish the source code under an LGPL-compatible license. TransGaming halted using code contributed to Wine when the license was changed, though this later resumed with TransGaming integrating certain LGPL portions of Wine into Cedega and placing those portions of the source code on their public servers.{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}

TransGaming offered a CVS tree for Cedega without the Point2Play [[graphical user interface|GUI]], copy protection support, and texture compression<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011225200125/http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/10/22/0051250|url=http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/10/22/0051250|title=TransGaming, Mandrake team up to bring PC games directly to Linux|date=2001-10-22|access-date=2023-05-30|archive-date=2001-12-25|first=Grant|last=Gross}}</ref> through its own repositories<ref>{{cite web | url=http://cvs.transgaming.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050406040933/http://cvs.transgaming.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ | archive-date=2005-04-06 | title=Repository }}</ref> with mixed [[LGPL]], [[AFPL]] and bstring licensing.<ref name="License">{{cite web | url = http://www.cedega.com/license.php?source=1 | publisher = TransGaming | title = Software License }}{{Dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Scripts and guides have been made by the community to facilitate building Cedega from the source tree.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=193814%2F | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522034255/http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=193814%2F | archive-date=2011-05-22 | title=&#91;Free Gaming&#93; Easy Automatic Installation, without efforts, of CVScedega for Newbies }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wiwimod/index.php?page=howto%20cedega%20cvs | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080112184849/http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wiwimod/index.php?page=howto%20cedega%20cvs | archive-date=2008-01-12 | title=LinuX-gamers.net - Howtos - Cedega CVS }}</ref>