On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 9:50 AM, az <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, is Wine use legal? > For what? Normal usage is definitely legal as all Wine does is to replicate the Windows API/ABI without using any of Microsoft's code (and this has a long history of being legal) > I have Windows XP Home OEM, and I emulate Windows XP on Wine, under Linux/Debian. Use of Wine does not require a Microsoft license. Use of Microsoft's code may or may not require one. James