Run Linux apps on other platforms with LINA

Posted Sep 27, 2007 19:45 UTC (Thu) by amikins (guest, #451)
In reply to: Run Linux apps on other platforms with LINA by scarabaeus
Parent article: Run Linux apps on other platforms with LINA

In addition to the poor explanation for the mechanisms through which this functions, there's a highly suspicious entry in the FAQ for licensing. Taken at face value, this is indicating that you you use the LINA tools to build something the source for the project must be GPL'd..

Is it taking natively compilable Linux apps and compiling them using a seperate toolset, or must you port the application to their library set first?

If you can compile an unmodified source tree with this toolset, I don't see how they can claim you must distribute your source under the GPL, since it's clearly not a derivitive work at this point. If your application must be ported to the framework first, claiming this is a way of running "Linux" applications seems a little misleading.

I'm a little puzzled.

Run Linux apps on other platforms with LINA

Posted Sep 27, 2007 22:07 UTC (Thu) by moxfyre (guest, #13847) [Link]

I agree. How does it work?

Is LINA like Wine-in-reverse, implementing Linux APIs on Windows? If so, use Cygwin, which basically does just that.

Is it like wxWidgets, implementing one widget API on multiple platforms? If so, why not use wxWidgets already.

If it's something else... well then what is it?

Run Linux apps on other platforms with LINA

Posted Sep 28, 2007 19:16 UTC (Fri) by ewan (guest, #5533) [Link]

The argument would be that the resulting binary would be a derived work,
and you could either distribute it under the GPL, or not at all. If the
original project has a GPL incompatible license then you're stuck
with 'not at all'.

This is essentially the same case that's made for things linked to GPL
libraries as distinct from LGPL libraries.