[citation needed] Though Cedega was mainly proprietary software, TransGaming did make part of the source publicly available via CVS, under a mix of licenses.
TransGaming released a proper demo of Cedega because of complaints of the difficulty of building a usable version of the program from the public CVS, as well as its outdated nature.
TransGaming similarly discouraged source-based distributions like Gentoo Linux from creating automated tools to let people build their own version of Cedega from the public CVS.
A basic list of features: Cedega subscribers dwindled as users expressed a number of complaints[6] due to lack of updates, fatal problems with supported games and with Wine having achieved a number of features that were unique to Cedega, giving even better compatibility in some cases.
[1] TransGaming's business practice of benefiting financially from the Wine project, without contributing anything back to it drew criticism.
[9] 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.
[citation needed] TransGaming offered a CVS tree for Cedega without the Point2Play GUI, copy protection support, and texture compression[11] through its own repositories[12] with mixed LGPL, AFPL and bstring licensing.