Alexandre Julliard : wine_common_ver: Set company name to Microsoft, some apps check for that.

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Thu Mar 8 03:40:14 CST 2007


Paul Chitescu <paulc at voip.null.ro> writes:

> Ummm, isn't this legally dangerous? Stamping a piece of code with
> Microsoft's name can be interpreted as counterfeiting.

Not really, it's just providing a string that apps require to behave
properly. The LegalCopyright field still says it's been written by the
Wine authors. It's similar to IE pretending to be Mozilla in its
user-agent string...

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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