On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Bret Comstock Waldow bcw1000@yahoo.com wrote:
Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
I ONLY want to write a Windows app I can install on my OWN copy of Tablet XP on my OWN Tablet PC and then run from Linux via WINE.
So you want that everyone drop everything they are doing and start doing something that no one else can possibly use? Because it's either illegal, too costly or depends on hardware that non one has? What a wonderful idea!
No, I want to develop a solution that anyone who has a Tablet PC can use to remain in Linux/Unix while using their OWN Tablet PC and the legal copy of Tablet XP that is licensed for that actual PC, and I want to tell others how to do it so they can for themselves.
If it's legal for me to release the actual binaries to do that under a free license (I'm using the Modified BSD license for my current .NET server), then I will. If it's only legal to release the source code or instructions under a free license then that's what I'll publish, and people can write and compile their own, so they can use everything they have paid for in a legal way.
And you didn't address why it's acceptable for the WINE project to tell people to use native .dlls in WINE without loading a full session of Windows, but not acceptable for me.
Can you speak to that, please? Is WINE itself breaking the law, and what is the difference to what I am thinking of if the project is not?
Wine is software...not sure how 'it' can break the law. There's a vast difference between a software project, developing for that software, and using that software. A person using native Windows DLLs with Wine may be violating copyright law or the MS EULA if they don't own a licensed copy of Windows. We only advise licensed users of Windows to use their DLLs in Wine, and even then its' only as a last resort because it's detrimental in the long run to the project (developmentally, not legally).
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-d9796202650e186ec37698c0c8d2a18bebf6862c