*Wine* or _Wine Is Not an Emulator_ is a native [[Unix]]/[[X]] implementation of Microsoft [[Windows]] APIs. This allows applications that have been written for Windows to run under Linux using the Wine compatibility layer.

Not all Windows applications work perfectly under Wine, however the project has been under steady development for over ten years and a large number of applications run acceptably under it.

The Wine project originally used the [[License:MIT|MIT license]] license, so some versions are available under this license, however all releases since 2002 have been released under the more restrictive [[License:LGPL|LGPL license]]. A fork called [[Rewind]] attempted to continue development of the MIT licensed code, but work on the project ceased sometime around 2005.

Other projects that work closely with Wine are [[ReactOS]] - a Windows NT compatible OS and [[Darwine]] - a project to port Wine to [[OSX]]/[[Darwin]].

Picasa, a [[license:proprietary|proprietary]] photo organizer for Windows and Linux from [[Google]] embeds Wine, Google has contributed a large number of patches to the Wine project to make this possible.

Another commercial user of Wine is Codeweavers, who use Wine in their proprietary product "Crossover Office":http://www.codeweavers.com/ that allows Office to run on [[Linux]].

h3. External Links

* "Google's use of Wine for Linux Picasa":http://www.winehq.com/pipermail/wine-devel/2006-May/047806.html

* "Wine Newsgroup":http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine

* "Screenshots of Windows applications running on WINE":http://www.winehq.org/site?ss=1

*Wine* or _Wine Is Not an Emulator_ is a native [[Unix]]/[[X]] implementation of Microsoft [[Windows]] APIs. This allows applications that have been written for Windows to run under Linux using the Wine compatibility layer.

Not all Windows applications work perfectly under Wine, however the project has been under steady development for over ten years and a large number of applications run acceptably under it.

The Wine project originally used the [[License:MIT|MIT license]] license, so some versions are available under this license, however all releases since 2002 have been released under the more restrictive [[License:LGPL|LGPL license]]. A fork called [[Rewind]] attempted to continue development of the MIT licensed code, but work on the project ceased sometime around 2005.

Other projects that work closely with Wine are [[ReactOS]] - a Windows NT compatible OS and [[Darwine]] - a project to port Wine to [[OSX]]/[[Darwin]].

Picasa, a [[license:proprietary|proprietary]] photo organizer for Windows and Linux from [[Google]] embeds Wine, Google has contributed a large number of patches to the Wine project to make this possible.

Another commercial user of Wine is Codeweavers, who use Wine in their proprietary product "Crossover Office":http://www.codeweavers.com/ that allows Office to run on [[Linux]].

h3. External Links

* "Google's use of Wine for Linux Picasa":http://www.winehq.com/pipermail/wine-devel/2006-May/047806.html

* "Wine Newsgroup":http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine

*Wine* or _Wine Is Not Wine is an Emulator_ is a native [[Unix]]/[[X]] implementation of Microsoft the [[Windows]] APIs. This allows applications that have been written for Windows to run under Linux using the Wine compatibility layer.

Not all Windows applications work perfectly under Wine, however the project has been under steady development for over ten years and a large number of applications run acceptably under it.

The Wine project originally used the [[License:MIT|MIT license]] license, so some versions are available under this license, however all releases since 2002 have been released under the more restrictive [[License:LGPL|LGPL license]]. A fork called [[Rewind]] attempted to continue development API on top of the MIT licensed code, but work on the project ceased sometime around 2005.

Other projects that work closely with Wine are [[ReactOS]] - a Windows NT compatible OS [[X]] and [[Darwine]] - a project to port Wine to [[OSX]]/[[Darwin]].

Picasa, a [[license:proprietary|proprietary]] photo organizer for Windows and Linux from [[Google]] embeds Wine, Google has contributed a large number of patches to the Wine project to make this possible.

h3. External Links

* "Google's use of Wine for Linux Picasa":http://www.winehq.com/pipermail/wine-devel/2006-May/047806.html

* "Wine Newsgroup":http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine [[Unix]].

"Wine is an implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. It

does not require Microsoft Windows, but can use native Windows DLLs if

they are available. It provides both a development toolkit for porting

Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many

unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes.

"