[Wine] Legal issues for bundling Wine with my Application

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On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:20 PM, asafbenzaken <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Hi
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>  I've recently written some graphic application in windows.
>  i've was successfull in running it under Linux using Wine.
>  I had to add gdiplus.dll to the windows/system32 directory.
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>  now for my question.
>  Is it legal for me to create a "Bundle" Wine with my application and make it work "native like" under linux - and then sell it?
>  Meaning that the end user will but a software that will install my application while it will run under the Wine platform?
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>  my question regards legal issues for Wine but mainly for Microsoft.
>  since i'm using gdiplus.dll, arent i'm obligated to pay something to microsoft?
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>  Thanks
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You should consult a lawyer about this. If you're using native
gdiplus, the issue gets even more complex. You'd be better off filing
bugs for whatever gdi functions are missing/incomplete in wine's
gdiplus, so you could avoid using native.