That is a solid argument as long as you can afford to pay an attorney to sayit. :) Just kidding. You'll be fine for now. I've never heard of a single personbeing audited by M$ in the "dll" fashion. As long as you understand theconsequences in redistributing them to others, its a safe move. -Tres On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 21/02/2008, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:> > On Thursday 21 February 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote:> > > Thank you Tres. I'll start googling the topic, as until now I was> > > unaware of the technical details of dlls and such. If I have a legal> > > Windows license, then I should be able to use the dlls, no?> >> >> > Not necessarily. Sometimes there are unusual conditions in the Microsoft> > license for the product, and the do tend to vary a lot.> >> > For the general case, the older the dll, the more likely it is to have> a> > license that simply says something like "you can use this stuff if you> > paid" whereas more recent products are more likely to include bizarre> > conditions like "this dll may only be used on a Microsoft platform" -> > which makes usage on Wine technically violate the license.> >> > And some dll's are freely redistributable, like the vb runtime.> >> > In any event, you always have to read the license for the product that> > supplied the dll to see what the exact license says. Assumptions can be> > dangerous.>> Interestingly enough, I do not have access to the EULA of my version> of Windows! I was force-sold the OS through Dell when I bought my> Inspiron laptop. There is no paper EULA, and I cannot read the version> on the disk without installing it from scratch! I wonder if this> inability to read the EULA invalidates it.>> As there is no technical reason not to use the MS dll's, which may or> may not be licensed for such but MS provides no way of reading the> license, I dare to use them. Note that _all_ the software and media on> my computer are properly licensed and this is the first time in about> three years that I walk on potentially ill-licensed software. I'm no> pirate, and I expect that if a company wishes me to respect their> license, they should make the license available.>> Dotan Cohen>> http://what-is-what.com> http://gibberish.co.il> א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?> -- - Tres.Finocchiaro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx next part --------------An HTML attachment was scrubbed...URL: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080224/c4cffc7b/attachment.htm
