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

[Scott Ritchie]

On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 21:19 +0100, Jonathan Ernst wrote:
> Le dimanche 20 novembre 2005 à 12:04 -0800, Scott Ritchie a écrit :
> [...]
> > 
> > Requiring the user to configure it with Winetools is always an option.
> > Currently, when Wine discovers an app like Steam that needs ActiveX, it
> > prompts the user if he would like to download it.  However, this doesn't
> > work.  If that were working automagically (with the download location
> > being one who has distribution rights), perhaps this whole issue would
> > go away.
> 
> Maybe we could make Wine download this file from several locations that
> have a right to redistribute it (Does someone at WineHQ or Codeweavers
> has a MSVC licence ?)... We could use the same script I did for the
> Mozilla ActiveX Control ?
> 

I wonder if it's possible to have the people at mozilla.org host it?
Perhaps we can get someone there interested in Wine.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie