On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 08:29, Ivan Leo Murray-Smith wrote:
[explanation of why using the install script is probably illegal]
I agree. I'm pretty sure these are only redistributable under a license that limits their use to Windows. Even if the limitation is illegal under competition laws, this doesn't make it legal to distribute the files without a license in terms that allow distribution in the particular circumstances.
It may be that installing IE under Wine at all is outside the IE license. The situation may be different if it was originally installed under Windows and the original Windows partition merely mounted to use it under Wine. Of course I couldn't be bothered looking into this more closely because I'd rather not invite all the security issues that come with running IE.