[Wine] Windows license required?

[John Drescher]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:38 PM, dwasifar <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
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> Kelytha wrote:
>> To put it short and simple: this is plain misinformation.
>>
>> You don't need to buy any license to use Wine.
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> Perhaps we should put the Wine maintainers in touch with Mr. Zorin then, so they can get this straightened out.  I sent him email asking him why he thinks so, and he sent me back email just flatly stating the same claim again, with no explanation.  He appears to simply be mistaken.
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> Who would be the right Wine team member to notify?

Some of the redistributables need a windows licence to install. There
are different wordings on the agreements to install different
redistributable packages from Microsoft. And also you can not copy
.dlls from a windows install to wine or use any of those .dll download
sites. If you do not install any of these you need no license.

John