Licensing and technical issues with a Wine package that includes the Mozilla ActiveX Control

Mike Hearn mike at plan99.net
Sun Nov 20 09:23:04 CST 2005


On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:55:30 +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> As I understand the Howto, Steam somehow needs this mfc dll, but doens't
> ship it. That can mean, that the Steam developer don't have the rights
> to distribute it, which sounds a bit strange to me. If they don't
> deliver a vital dll for their software, they have a problem, which we or
> better you should not solve, with shipping any propietary software in
> the wine app.

Windows comes with the MFC DLL and has done for yonks, so it's effectively
an OS component now.




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