[Wine] Tmax Window(a propietary OS) using Wine?

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Wed Jul 8 01:12:01 CDT 2009


On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Ben Klein<shacklein at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/8 Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>:
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: nengad24 <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
>> -- snip --
>> Yesterday a korean company has released a new OS which is compatible
>> with MS Windows Apps.
>> -- snip --
>> http://www.tmaxwindow.co.kr/
>>
>> If you want to have more Info, i point you to the ReactOS Forum,where
>> a thread about this Company can be found.
>
> Someone posted a cnet blog article about tmax to #winehq, but without
> any real details or investigation, or someone more reputable than cnet
> commenting on it, I personally dismissed it as "yet another localised,
> doomed OS".
>
> After reading the ReactOS thread linked in the original forwarded
> mail, it looks like it's a blatant violation of GPL (and LGPL)
> spanning many projects, and FSF's legal team should be alerted.
>

As was already pointed out, unless it's certain that Wine's copyright
is being infringed, that's a harsh step.

First, it needs to be verified that Wine's license is being violated.
Then, someone holding a copyright in Wine's source code needs to
complain, since they have standing.
-- 
-Austin



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