On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 00:34, John Drescher wrote: > Some of the redistributables need a windows licence to install. There > are different wordings on the agreements to install different > redistributable packages from Microsoft. And also you can not copy > .dlls from a windows install to wine or use any of those .dll download > sites. If you do not install any of these you need no license. What about redistributables bundled with the applications that might require a Windows license? (such as .NET, possibly Visual C++ runtimes) Gert