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The name was derived from the recursive acronym "Wine Is Not an Emulator" (it is a compatibility layer), although an alternative expansion is "Windows Emulator".
Wine is free software. It was originally under the same MIT license as X11, but, owing to concern about proprietary versions of Wine not contributing changes back to the core project, work as of March 2002 is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public LicenseThe GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the GNU Library General Public License is an FSF approved Free Software license designed as a compromise between the GNU General Public License and simple permissive licenses such as the BSD license and the (LGPL).
The Wine project was started in 19931993 is a common year starting on Friday and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003 Events January January 1 Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic. by Bob Amstadt (the initial project leader) and Eric Youngdale as a way to run Windows applications on LinuxThis article is about Linux-based operating systems, GNU/Linux, and related topics. See Linux kernel for the kernel itself. See Linux (washing powder) for the Swiss brand of washing powder. Tux, a plump penguin, is the official Linux mascot Linux is the n. It originally targeted Windows 3.x (16-bit) applicationIn general, an application is using something general to some more conrete. For example: applied science. In business, an application is call for a job. In computing, an application is software application See also: application server.s, although the present focus is primarily on the dominant Win32 (32-bit) applications. The project probably originated in discussions on UsenetUsenet or Unix User Network is a communications medium in which users read and post textual messages (called "articles") to a number of distributed newsgroups (incorrectly called bulletin boards because of their similarity for the unaware observer). The m in comp.os.linux. Alexandre JulliardAlexandre Julliard is a computer programmer who is best known as the project leader and Benevolent Dictator for Life for WINE, a compatibility layer to run Windows programs on Unix-like operating systems. Julliard studied computer science at the Swiss Fed has been the project leader since 19941994 is a common year starting on Saturday, and was designated the International year of the Family''. Events January events January 1 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect January 6 Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an.
Rather than acting as a full emulatorThis article is about emulation in computer science. See Emulation (disambiguation) for other meanings. An emulator in the most general sense, duplicates (provide an emulation of) the functions of one system with a different system, so that the second sys, Wine implements a compatibility layer, providing alternative implementations of the DLLs that Windows programs call.
Wine is primarily developed for Linux. FreeBSD and Solaris-x86 are also strongly supported.
The project has been time-consuming and difficult for developers, at least partially because of incomplete or incorrect documentation of the Win32 API. While most Win32 functions are documented, there are areas such as file formats and protocols where an official Microsoft specification does not exist, as well as undocumented low-level functions and obscure bugs that must be duplicated precisely for some applications to work properly. Consequently, the Wine team have had to reverse engineer many function calls and file formats, in such areas as thunking.
The involvement of Corel for a time assisted the project, chiefly by employing Julliard and others to work on it. This was motivated by Corel's porting of WordPerfect Office, its office applications suite, to Linux. However, the effort stopped when Corel cancelled all Linux-related projects. Julliard is now employed by CodeWeavers to work on CrossOver Office, their proprietary version of Wine.