16.05.2012 17:34, Rosanne DiMesio wrote:
If the user didn't have to manually do anything, it should be rated platinum.
Agreed.
appdb ratings are from the point of view of someone who simply uses their linux distro to install wine, and then tries to install a game. If no fiddling is required, and the game works perfectly, it's platinum even if under the hood the game has snuck in a native (and Microsoft-copyrighted) DLL. (DLLs not copyrighted by Microsoft are not generally a concern.)
In parallel, people who care about making Wine run without any native DLLs should make sure there's a "purist" bug in wine's bugzilla describing what breaks if you force wine to use its own builtin DLL for the game. (And should then try to fix that bug. :-) - Dan