Re: Alexandre Julliard : wine_common_ver: Set company name to Microsoft, some apps check for that.
Hi! Ummm, isn't this legally dangerous? Stamping a piece of code with Microsoft's name can be interpreted as counterfeiting. Maybe a better choice would be to add a configure option --with-company-name and let the users set it to... whatever... Paul Chitescu
On 3/7/07, Paul Chitescu <paulc(a)voip.null.ro> wrote:
Hi!
Ummm, isn't this legally dangerous? Stamping a piece of code with Microsoft's name can be interpreted as counterfeiting.
Maybe a better choice would be to add a configure option --with-company-name and let the users set it to... whatever...
Paul Chitescu
A registry option would be nicer. Jesse
"Paul Chitescu" <paulc(a)voip.null.ro> wrote:
Ummm, isn't this legally dangerous? Stamping a piece of code with Microsoft's name can be interpreted as counterfeiting.
Since obviously some app depends on that it should be deemed a reasonable choice of action IMHO.
Maybe a better choice would be to add a configure option --with-company-name and let the users set it to... whatever...
A better choice would be to sue that company for tieing its product to a monopolistic platform, but unfortunately we have no resources for that. -- Dmitry.
Paul Chitescu <paulc(a)voip.null.ro> writes:
Ummm, isn't this legally dangerous? Stamping a piece of code with Microsoft's name can be interpreted as counterfeiting.
Not really, it's just providing a string that apps require to behave properly. The LegalCopyright field still says it's been written by the Wine authors. It's similar to IE pretending to be Mozilla in its user-agent string... -- Alexandre Julliard julliard(a)winehq.org
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