Re: Alexandre Julliard : wine_common_ver: Set company name to Microsoft, some apps check for that.

[Paul Chitescu]

Hi!

Ummm, isn't this legally dangerous? Stamping a piece of code with 
Microsoft's name can be interpreted as counterfeiting.

Maybe a better choice would be to add a configure option 
--with-company-name and let the users set it to... whatever...

Paul Chitescu

Alexandre Julliard : wine_common_ver: Set company name to Microsoft, some apps check for that.

[Jesse Allen]

On 3/7/07, Paul Chitescu  wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Ummm, isn't this legally dangerous? Stamping a piece of code with
> Microsoft's name can be interpreted as counterfeiting.
>
> Maybe a better choice would be to add a configure option
> --with-company-name and let the users set it to... whatever...
>
> Paul Chitescu

A registry option would be nicer.

Jesse

Alexandre Julliard : wine_common_ver: Set company name to Microsoft, some apps check for that.

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Paul Chitescu"  wrote:
> Ummm, isn't this legally dangerous? Stamping a piece of code with 
> Microsoft's name can be interpreted as counterfeiting.

Since obviously some app depends on that it should be deemed a reasonable
choice of action IMHO.
> Maybe a better choice would be to add a configure option 
> --with-company-name and let the users set it to... whatever...

A better choice would be to sue that company for tieing its product
to a monopolistic platform, but unfortunately we have no resources
for that.

Alexandre Julliard : wine_common_ver: Set company name to Microsoft, some apps check for that.

[Alexandre Julliard]

Paul Chitescu  writes:
> Ummm, isn't this legally dangerous? Stamping a piece of code with
> Microsoft's name can be interpreted as counterfeiting.

Not really, it's just providing a string that apps require to behave
properly. The LegalCopyright field still says it's been written by the
Wine authors. It's similar to IE pretending to be Mozilla in its
user-agent string...