[Wine] DMCA and EU Copyright laws

[David C. Kerber]

What does Copy Protection have to do with Wine?  Wine isn't copied from anything; it's developer-written source code. 

It's possible that there are apps which will run under Wine that may attempt to circumvent copy protection on dvds (for example), but that has nothing to do with Wine itself, and since those apps would also run under windows, those same concerns would apply to windows.

D


> -----Original Message-----
> From: wine-users-bounces at winehq.org 
> [mailto:wine-users-bounces at winehq.org] On Behalf Of jtnire
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 8:47 AM
> To: wine-users at winehq.org
> Subject: [Wine] Re: DMCA and EU Copyright laws
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> Sorry folks,
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> I should probably mention my main area of concern a bit better. 
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> I have no doubt that WINE is a clean-room implementation. 
> This is not what I'm worried about.
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> It's the fact that there has been some debate about 
> "Circumventing Copy Protection", as far as the DMCA and EU CD 
> are concerned anyways.
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> Does WINE do this?
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> Thanks
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