Easy IE installer script

Troy Rollo wine at troy.rollo.name
Tue Dec 23 18:03:06 CST 2003


On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 08:29, Ivan Leo Murray-Smith wrote:
>[explanation of why using the install script is probably illegal]

I agree. I'm pretty sure these are only redistributable under a license that 
limits their use to Windows. Even if the limitation is illegal under 
competition laws, this doesn't make it legal to distribute the files without 
a license in terms that allow distribution in the particular circumstances.

It may be that installing IE under Wine at all is outside the IE license. The 
situation may be different if it was originally installed under Windows and 
the original Windows partition merely mounted to use it under Wine. Of course 
I couldn't be bothered looking into this more closely because I'd rather not 
invite all the security issues that come with running IE.




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