WinUAE 0.9.90 (31.07.2004) "WinUAE 1.0 public beta #1"

[Trev]

WinUAE is a derivative work of UAE, which is licensed under the GPL, so WinUAE can't be commercial in the closed source sense. However, the current maintainer could start charging for binaries as long as the source code is made available. Such a move would be quite atypical for an open source project such as this. Even if that did happen, there's nothing to prevent someone like me from freely distributing binaries.

Obviously, there are ways to work around GPL restrictions, but let's hope Toni, et al leaves things the way they are.

Trev

[Trev]

Piru's right. Toni would have to decouple the GUI from WinUAE and release a new version of the GUI using both a GPL license and a separate closed source license. Obviously, this wouldn't accomplish the closed source goal. It would only give Toni the ability to separately license the GUI source code for use in a wholey separate closed source project. But like Piru said, WinUAE is much, much more than a GUI for UAE.