This is the general Wine FAQ. For technical questions, visit the Wine Troubleshooting Guide instead. Who Maintains this FAQ ? Dave Gardner maintained it from 1995-1998. Douglas Ridgway (ridgway@winehq.com) took it over in 1999. Andreas Mohr (amohr@codeweavers.com) converted it to FAQ-O-Matic in 2000. Dimitrie O. Paun, Keith Matthews and Thomas Wickline reorganised it in 2002. For suggestions/additions/complaints regarding this FAQ, please send an email to wine-faq@winehq.org What is the copyright on the FAQ ? And how may I use it ? The original Wine FAQ, which this FAQ was based on, was copyright © 1995-1998 David Gardner. It may be reproduced and modified under the same terms as Wine itself. What is Wine and what is it supposed to do ? Wine is a program which allows the operation of DOS and MS Windows programs (Windows 3.x and Win32 executables) on UNIX. It consists of a program loader, which loads and executes a Windows binary, and a library that implements Windows API calls using their UNIX or X11 equivalents. The library may also be used for porting Win32 code into native UNIX executables, often without many changes in the source. Wine is free software, and its license (contained in the file LICENSE in each distribution) is LGPL style.