[Wine] Legal Issues
L. Rahyen
research at science.su
Fri Dec 18 02:00:32 CST 2009
On 2009-12-18 (December, Friday) 06:25:06 army_ant7 wrote:
> I heard that Wine uses Windows apps like Notepad, Wordpad, Regedit, etc...
Wrong. Wine does not include *Windows* Notepad, etc. Instead, all of these are
replaced with LGPL-licensed open-source equivalents. Of course, there is a lot
of difference internally (because whole Wine including Wordpad, Notepad, etc.
was written from scratch) but to the "end-user" these programs may look similar
(however even from end-user point of view there are differences between Wine and
Windows versions of Wordpad, Notepad and other standard programs).
> Is this legal?
Yes.
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