[Wine] DMCA and EU Copyright laws

[David Gerard]

On 27 April 2010 13:20, jtnire <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:

> Are you able to let me know, in outline terms, why it doesn't violate the EU Copyright Directive?
> Maybe it doesn't circumvent any protection at all?


Erm ... why would it? It doesn't use anyone else's code, except under
LGPL or compatible licenses, and no-one is allowed to contribute
patches who's seen MS source code or might have.


- d.