Dan Kegel wrote:
I've been fighting against the notion that the wine project encourages cracks for some time now. Cracked versions of apps are bad because they are a) illegal (at least in the US), b) disrespectful of the author of the app, and c) much more likely to be infected with malware.
One place we still do it is in our appdb ratings definitions; http://appdb.winehq.org//help/?sTopic=maintainer_ratings which say "Gold: Application works flawlessly with some DLL overrides or other settings, crack etc. "
I propose that we change the appdb ratings definitions so that an app that only works with a crack gets no higher than bronze.
Any objections?
- Dan
Hi Dan,
in fact a DLL override may be another form of 'crack' - given the situation I'm not owner of a Windows copy and need to override MS DLL which is not free to use without Windows license.
I think we should not mix up the functionality ratings with legality ratings. I consider this a politicspeak, not techspeak.
Given the problem above - we can solve it by rewording in a similar spirit but leaving the bad word out:
"Gold: Application works flawlessly with some DLL overrides or other settings, etc. Copy protection issues are not considered as issues here."
Regards Vit