https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43850
--- Comment #3 from Henri Verbeet hverbeet@gmail.com --- (In reply to Sebastian Lackner from comment #2)
Now that all patents have expired it should no longer be a problem to implement it directly in Wine.
Legally, yes. It doesn't make it any more desirable to reimplement it inside Wine while we could use an external library though.