COM/DCOM of WINE

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 09:26:47PM +0200, Saulius Krasuckas wrote:
>   ... 
> > If something will not work for you please fill a bug report at 
> > http://bugs.winehq.org . In case if builtin DCOM support doesn't work as 
> > expected you can run "winetricks dcom98" to use native DCOM instead (you 
> > can download winetricks at http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks ). If this 
> > workaround helps you should mention this in your bug report as well.
> 
> IANAL, but for being legal this way requires a user to have valid Windows 
> Licence (or so).  One of at least Win98, AFAIK.

AFAIK copyright only governs copying/distribution.  You may need a license
to redistribute MS-DCOM, but since it's Microsoft itself who distributes it
in their website I don't think they have a basis to claim damages.

(IANAL, either)

-- 
Robert Millan

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