Can I do this in WINE?

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
>> I ONLY want to write a Windows app I can install on my OWN copy of
>> Tablet XP on my OWN Tablet PC and then run from Linux via WINE.
>
> So you want that everyone drop everything they are doing and start
> doing something that no one else can possibly use? Because it's either
> illegal, too costly or depends on hardware that non one has?  What a
> wonderful idea!
No, I want to develop a solution that anyone who has a Tablet PC can use
to remain in Linux/Unix while using their OWN Tablet PC and the legal
copy of Tablet XP that is licensed for that actual PC, and I want to
tell others how to do it so they can for themselves.

If it's legal for me to release the actual binaries to do that under a
free license (I'm using the Modified BSD license for my current .NET
server), then I will.  If it's only legal to release the source code or
instructions under a free license then that's what I'll publish, and
people can write and compile their own, so they can use everything they
have paid for in a legal way.

And you didn't address why it's acceptable for the WINE project to tell
people to use native .dlls in WINE without loading a full session of
Windows, but not acceptable for me.

Can you speak to that, please?  Is WINE itself breaking the law, and
what is the difference to what I am thinking of  if the project is not?

Cheers,
Bret