Dear WINE Developers,
Briefly with Bricscad IntelliCAD we have an almost-clone of AutoCAD and we are very successfull in selling it to large corporations under a Coporate License Agreement. Several of our Corporate clients want to start with implementing LINUX in their organization. For their engineering departments they need an AutoCAD alternative that is 100% compatible with it and that can be learned by an AutoCAD user in less then 3 hours. BricsCad has invested a lot in making our version of IntelliCAD a stable, relaible and performant CAD software, that is so close to AutoCAD. We have it now ready in a beta version on LINUX. The products name will be BricsCad for Linux and will use WINE. BricsCad for Linux vs AutoCAD is comparable to what Open Office is vs MS Office. We will support three versions: Red Hat, Suse and Java Desktop. Press release is ready.
OUR PROBLEM: We are wondering if we can distribute the Microsoft DLL's with the application without infringing the copyright of Microsoft. The alternative is rewrite some of them, but that would require a couple of months of development and postponing the release of the software. I guess we are not the only ones with this problem?
Looking forward to your point of view Erik De Keyser CEO BricsCad www.bricscad.com