On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
This is a valid concern. I think we may end up having to deal with this by providing an easy, standard way to install the most commonly needed, legally redistributable dependencies. For instance, we might bundle a couple of key demo apps with Wine; if we choose carefully, we can probably find a set of apps that will just happen to install all the commonly needed redistributables.
This really sounds like an issue for distribution maintainers, OEMs, Vars and Wine companies like CodeWeavers. I really don't think Winehq should ever get in to a position of shipping third party runtimes via back door demos. If you want to do it in Winetricks or if the Bordeaux and PlayOnLinux guys want to do it, more power to you. Nothing stops you from making your own Wine package and distributing it however you like with whatever third party runtimes and demos that you like.