http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9685
--- Comment #182 from Richard shiningarcanine@gmail.com 2012-01-07 22:48:15 CST --- (In reply to comment #181)
No, it is not. Bugzilla is for fixing bugs in wine
then fix this bug. It doesn't matter how do you fix it. Just fix it.
People cite the DMCA as the reason for not doing anything about this, but as far as I know, WINE has already violated the DMCA on at least one occasion.
Rise of Nations has Digital Rights Management technology that broke the game in earlier versions of WINE, but it works in recent versions. As far as I know, that is a DMCA violation. Fixing that should have violated DMCA, yet no one had any problem doing it.
Since the DRM technology used in Rise of Nations is not unique to it, I imagine that each game that started working when that issue was fixed is a separate DMCA violation. However, I am not a lawyer, so I can only speculate on the quantity of violations that occurred when that was fixed.