On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:20 AM, asafbenzaken <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've recently written some graphic application in windows. > i've was successfull in running it under Linux using Wine. > I had to add gdiplus.dll to the windows/system32 directory. Please file a bug for whatever you ran into in gdiplus that made you need the native DLL. Perhaps we can fix it. > now for my question. > Is it legal for me to create a "Bundle" Wine with my application > and make it work "native like" under linux - and then sell it? Yes. Google does this with Picasa (well, they don't sell it, but that doesn't matter). > Meaning that the end user will but a software that will install my > application while it will run under the Wine platform? > > my question regards legal issues for Wine but mainly for Microsoft. > since i'm using gdiplus.dll, arent i'm obligated to pay something to microsoft? A better path would be to bundle gdiplus.dll with your Windows app, and then tell people to run the app with Wine-1.0. You could provide a script that would download Wine 1.0 and install your app in it, say. - Dan
